[試題] 104-1 高天恩 英詩選讀 期中考
課程名稱︰英詩選讀
課程性質︰外文系 文學與文化專題
課程教師︰高天恩
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外國語文學系
考試日期（年月日）︰2015.11.13
考試時限（分鐘）：120分鐘
試題 :
English Poetry
Mid-Term Exam November 13, 2015
I. Fill each of the following blanks with correct information: (55%)
1. When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And __(1)__ sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's __(2)__ looks red and raw,
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring __(3)__,
"Tu-whit, tu-who!"
A merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
The above stanza is quoted from __(4)__ by __(5)__. The word "saw" in the
second lines means __(6)__.
2. And the woman leans muttering against
a tree, exhausted, purged--
avenged in part for lifelong __(7)__
she has to bear.
The above stanza is quoted from __(8)__ by Robert Hayden.
3. A poem should be __(9)__ and mute
As a __(10)__ fruit,
Dumb
As old medallions to the __(11)__.
4. That is not the voice of a __(12)__
nor a common reader
it is something young in anger
hardly knowing what to ask
who finds our lines our __(13)__
__(14)__ in this world.
5. Loveliest of trees, the __(15)__ now
Is hung with bloom along the __(16)__,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for __(17)__.
This stanza is quoted from a poem written by A. E. __(18)__.
6. __(19)__ too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with __(20)__ hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires __(21)__. No one ever __(22)__ him.
7. But could a __(23)__ send up through __(24)__ fumes
Its white and violet, fight with fried potatoes
And yesterday's __(25)__ ripening in the hall,
Flutter, or sing and __(26)__ down these rooms
Even if we were willing to let it in,
Had time to warm it, keep it clean,
Anticipate a message, let it begin?
The above lines are quoted from "Kitchenette __(27)__" by Gwendolyn
__(28)__. The word "it" in these lines refer to __(29)__.
8. The gray __(30)__ and the long balck land;
And the __(31)__ half-moon large and low;
And the startled little __(32)__ that leap
In fiery __(33)__ from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing __(34)__,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
This stanza is quoted from __(35)__ by Robert __(36)__.
9. Round the __(37)__ of a sudden came the __(38)__,
And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:
And straight was a path of __(39)__ for him,
And the need of a world of __(40)__ for me.
This short poem is titled __(41)__.
10. Oh, love's best __(42)__ is in seeming trust,
And age in __(43)__ loves not to have years told:
Therefore I __(44)__ with her and she with me,
And in our faults by __(45)__ we flattered be.
11. When I have __(46)__ that I may __(47)__ to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming __(48)__,
Before high-piled books, in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripened __(49)__.
These lines are quoted from a sonnet by __(50)__.
12. What happens to a dream __(51)__?
Does it dry up
Like a __(52)__ in the sun?
Or fester like a __(53)__--
And then __(54)__?
The above is quoted from a poem written by __(55)__.
II. Discuss any FOUR of the following topics: (50%)
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1. Discuss Archibald MacLeish's technique in rendering his philosophy of
poetry in the poem "Ars Poetica."
2. Can you recall the various definitions of poetry provided by poets
themselves?
3. Discuss the theme and imagery of e.e. cumming's "In Just--".
4. Discuss the theme and imagery of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum."
5. Discuss the relationship between the speaker and his mistress in
Shakespeare's sonnet "When my love swears that she is made of truth"
6. Discuss the theme and imagery of Keat's sonnet "When I have fears".
7. Discuss the theme and imagery of Richerd Wilbur's "The Writer."
8. Discuss ANY poem or poems we have studied in class (but not covered in
the short essay questions) in any way you like--as long as your
discussion demonstrates your critical insights as well as your
familarity with the text(s) being analyzed.
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