自考英美文学选读00604考前串讲(4)
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英美文学考前串讲（4）
Chapter 3 The Romantic
Period
I. Choose the right answer:
1.
The Romantic Movement expressed a more or
less______
attitude toward the existing
social and political conditions.
ve
ve
l
erent
Answer: B (P160)
2.
It is _____who established the cult of the
individual
and championed the freedom of the
human spirit.
Jacques Rousseau
Wolfgang
von Goethe
Burke
Paine
Answer: A
(P157)
3. The two major novelists of the
English Romantic Period
are _____and Walter
Scott.
gton Irving
Austen
Melville
s Dickens
Answer: B (P165)
4.
_____defines the poet as
and poetry as
which originates in emotion recollected in
tranquility.
m Blake
m Wordsworth
Taylor Coleridge
Keats
Answer: B (P161)
5. For the Romantics, ____is not only the
major source of
poetic imagery, but also
provides the dominant subject matter.
Answer: C (P162)
6. In the Romantic period, ____is the most
prosperous literary
form.
n
Answer: B (P161)
7. The
tone of literature in
Blake is _______.
l
Answer: A (doleful:
悲哀的P168-169)
8. _____is regarded as a
Keats
m Blake
m Wordsworth
Austen
Answer: C (P176)
9. Which of
the following writings is not created by William
Wordsworth?
A.I Wandered Lonely
as a Cloud.
ed upon Westminster Bridge,
September 3, 1802.
Solitary Reaper.
Chimney Sweeper.
Answer: D (P179---182)
10. Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified
into two groups:
poems about nature and poems
about________.
life
m
activities
Answer: B (P176)
11. ’s
masterpiece, a great ______of the
early
19th century.
y
epic
Answer: C (P194)
12. In his lyrics
such as
Percy Bysshe Shelly expressed his love
for_____ and his hatred
toward tyranny.
middle class
poor
m
proletariat
Answer: C (P207)
13.
Preserver; hear, O hear!
Goodman Brown by
Hawthorne
to the West Wind by Shelly
of
Grass by Walt Whitman
s by Joyce
Answer: B
(P212)
14. In Shelly’s
reality and
poetic image, pours forth an exultant song
which suggests to the poet________.
celestial rapture and human limitation
image
creation and profound meaning
music and words
inspiration and skills of writing
Answer:
A (P206)
15. The author of
orth
Answer: D (217)
16.
Jane Austen’s first novel is __________.
and
Prejudice
and Sensibility
of a
Novel
Answer: B (P222)
17. In terms
of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?
and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s
novels.
and Prejudice is originally
drafted as
Impressions
and Prejudice
is a tragic novel.
this novel, the author
explores the relationship between
great
love and realistic benefits.
Answer: C
(P223-225)
18. After reading the first
chapter of Pride and Prejudice,
we may come
to know that is a woman of_______.
character
and poor understanding
character and quick
wit
ate character and quick wit
ate
character and poor understanding
Answer: A
(P227)
19. Romanticism is a period of
British literature roughly dated
from
_________.
A.1660-----1798
B.1798----1832
C.1483-----1546
D.1836-----1901
Answer: B (P157)
20. Which of the
following is the Gothic novel?
’s Prometheus
Unbound
’ Lamia
Shelly’s Frankenstein
Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Answer: C (P166)
lines
A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice
in__________.
Taylor Coleridge’s
m
Wordsworth’s Lines Written in Early Spring
Keats’s
Bysshe Shelly’s
Answer: A (P190
---191)
22. Which of the following is
taken from John Keats’
Grecial
Urn
A.
B.’
C.
D.
Answer: D (P221)
II. Read the quoted part and answer the
questions:
1.
Crying ’weep! ’weep! In
notes of woe
(1)Identify the
poem and poet.
(2)Explain
(3)What does the
sentence mean
church to prey.
Answer:
(1)It is from
experience)
by Blake.(P172)
(2)
(3)It
implies: religion is the instrument of their
repression
oppression, its nature is to
help bring misery to the poor
children.(P169)
2.
Where
burning Sappho loved and sung,
Where grew the
arts of war and peace,
Where Delos rose, and
Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them all,
But all, except their sun, is set.
(1)Identify the poem and its author;
(2)What does it mean
(3)What does the
passage imply?
Answer:
(1)The poet is
Byron. The poem is taken from
Greece
(from Don Juan)
(2)The sentence means: The
sun is still on the rise, but the
rest
things all set.
(3)The passage implied:
The author lamented over the fallen
Greece:
In the past, Greece nurtured
cultivated great poets and
heroes,who
enjoyed freedom and civilization, but now Greece
had
been enslaved,the past honorable
history couldn’t be found
again. (P199)
3.
Trace your grave and build your
tomb
And weave your winding-sheet---till fair
England be your Sepulcher
(1)Explain
(2)What was the deep implication of the poem?
Answer:
(1)Sepulcher means grave.
(P210~211)
(2)The poem ironically
addressed to the workers who submit to
capitalist exploitation. It warned them: If
they gave up the
struggle, they would be
digging graves for themselves wish
their
own hands. (P211)
4. ’d bride of
quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and
slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus
express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our
rhyme:
(1)Who is the poet? The name?
(2)Explain the sentence.
(3)What was the
theme of the poem?
Answer:
(1)This is
the
poet---John Keats. (P219)
(2)The sentence means: though time has passed,
the urn ,
the works of the art still remains,
and it tells a
pastorallyrical tale to
us, and the description of the urn is
much more beautiful than the words of any
human. (P218)
(3)The theme is: Human life
is transient, but the art is
immortal.
(P218)
5. ’s marbles steep,
Where
nothing, save the waves and I,
May her our
mutual murmurs sweep;
There, swan like, let me
sing and die:
A land of slaves shall ne’er be
mine---
Dash down you cup of Samian
wine!
(1)Identify the poem and its author.
(P203)
(2)Explain
Interpret the
passage and spot its implication.
Answer:
(1)The poet is Byron. The
poem is taken from
Greece (from Don
Juan)
(2)Swan is famous for its faith to
its lover, one of them die,
the other will
refuse to eat and drink, it will cry till death.
Here the author used a simile to show his
strong desire to
fight with the invaders
till death, and appeal to the
suppressed
Greek people to struggle for their freedom and
liberation.
6.
In vacant or in
pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then
my heart with pleasure fills,
And dance with
the daffodils.
(1) What is the
(2)
Interpret the passage.
(3) Why did the poet
write the poem, what did he want to
express?
Answer:
(1)The Daffodils
the poem saw. (P180)
(2)It is a
blisshappiness to recollect the beauty of nature
in
his mind when he is solitudelonely.
(3)The poem depictsdeals with the flowers
that he came across
along waterside, by
which he expresses the quiet, sympathy,
loving feeling to nature just like his words
7.
They rise upon clouds,
and sport in the wind,
And the angle
told Tom, if he’d be a good bye,
He’d have God
for his father, and never want joy.
(1)Identify the poem and its poet;
(2)What
does the poem implies?
Answer:
(1)
The poem is take from
Innocence)
(2) This is a lovely poem presenting a happy
and innocent
world, though the wretched
child are exploited and orphaned,
they had
nice dream for life and the world, which implies
religion make people obedient to
exploitation, and from
religion, they
can get consolation and an
happiness
8.
Oh! Lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed
One too like thee: tameless, and swift and
proud.
(1)Explain
(2)Can you
comprehend the deep emotion contained in the poem?
What’s that?
(3)The poet was called
the
he trumpeted the radical prophecy of hope
and rebirth.
Please write out his classic
words.
Answer:
(1)The sentence call
Shelley’s desire that he couldn’t best
being fettered tolimited by the humdrumtoo
ordinary reality
of everyday! (P208)
(2)In the poem, the west wind has
become the poet himself,
he wants to be free,
proud and controllable like the wild west
wind,to destruct and construct with the strong
power like the
west wind. (P207~208)
(3)
9.
…………
As doth
eternity: cold pastoral!
(1)How do you
understand
(2)What device is used in the
poem?
(3)Explain the implication of the poem.
At the end of the poem, the poet gave a famous
saying,
and it is also the theme of the poem,
what is that?
Answer:
(1)Cold
pastoral means the lyrical scene on the Grecian
urn
lacks life and warmth. (P222)
(2)Contrast. (P218)
(3)The poet
wanted to show the permanence of the art and the
transience of human passion presenting
his ambivalenceopposing
feelings about
time and nature of beauty.
The saying is
10.
From the cradle to the grave
Drain
your sweat---nay, drink your blood?
(1)Who
wrote the poem? What’s its name?
(2) Explain
(3) Interpret the passage.
Answer:
(1)The poem is
(2)Drones the
male of the honey-bees that don’t work ,
referring to the parasitic class in human
society.
(drones and bees are the devices of
metaphor) (P210)
(3)The poet called all
working people to rise up against their
political oppressors, but point out the
intolerable injustice
of economic
exploitation. It expressed the love for freedom
and
the hatred to tyranny of the author.
(P207)
11.
Destroyer and Preserver;
hear, O hear!
(1)What does the
(2)Why
called it
(3)Identify the poet and the poem.
Answer:
(1)
(2)Because west
wind buried the dead year and year and prepared
for a new spring, the poet call it
(3)It is
III. Questions and answers:
list the subjects and the faculties of the
Romanticism.
Answer:
(1)
The subjects are: love, nature, nationalism,
individualism,
(2) The faculties they
cherished are: imagination, spontaneity,
inspiration. (P162)
m Wordsworth was
the first representative author of
Rom,How do you know his idea and style?
Answer:
(1)His poems are most about
Nature and Human Life;
(2)Beyond the
pleasure of the picturesque with the eye and the
external aspects of nature, however, lies
in deeper moral
awareness, a sense of
completeness in multiplicity.
(it means poem
not only deals with the beautiful world, but
express moral)
(3)Common life and the
joy and sorrow of the common people and
inner self are his subjects;
(4)He is
a poet in memory of the past and was called
of nature
(5)He deliberately writes in
simple and ordinary speech ,
refuses to
decorate the truth of experience of pure and
profound feeling;
(6)He thought poet
is
spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings, which originates in
emotion
recollected in tranquility.
(7)He always
writes an elusive beauty of simplicity or a rural
figure. (P176-179)
thoughts and
event influenced the period of Romanticism?
Answer:
(1) Rousseau (a French
philosopher) explored new ideas about
nature, society and education, which provided
guiding priding
principles for the
French Revolution and Romanticism;
(2) The French Revolution and
Man
enthusiasm in the English
liberals and radicals,which became a
great source for Romanticism.
(3)
England itself had experienced profound economic
and social
changes as
industrialism,which were reflected in the works of
literature. (P157-159)
’s
greatest contribution is his creation of the
hero
Answer:
(1) ’s masterpiece,
a great comic epic,
in which Byron described
a hero named Don Juan.
He was a great lover
and seducer of women.
In the conventional
sense,al positives like courage,
generosity, and frankness…
In a word, Don
was proud Juan was immoral,
but Juan had his
own mor, mysterious, and a noble rebel
figure.
He was a young man with
unconquerable wills and
inexhaustible
energies,
one of rebellious individuals
against outwornoutdated
social systems
and conventions.
(2) Comment: The poet’s
true intention is to present a
panoramic
view of different types of society,the main theme
of
the works the basic ironic theme of
appearance and
reality,during which the
poet also presented various materials
and the clash of emotions. (P194-196)
5. What is the difference between
Romanticism and
Neoclassicism?
(Neoclassicism=Augustans=enlightener)
Answer:
(1)The Romantic Movement expressed
negative attitude toward the
existing
social and political condition, the Romantics saw
the
corruption and injustice of the
inhumanity of capitalism;
(2)The Neo
saw man as a social; while Rom saw him as an
individual in the solitary state;
(3)Neo stressed the common features of men;
but the Rom
stressed the special
qualities of each individual’s mind;
(4)Neo celebrated rationality, equality and
science of the
outside world; while Rom
changed to the inner world of the
human
spirit, whose theory saw the individual as the
center of
all experience;
(5)Literature was heavily didactic and
moralizing. There were
fixed laws for
each type of literature; Rom expressed his
feeling, valued accuracy in portraying, they
thought literature
should be free from
all rules.
(6)The most important form in
Neo was prose; while Rom was an
age of
poetry. (P160-161)
e the characters of
John Keats’s poetry.
Answer:
(1)The poems are sensuous, colorful, and rich
in imagery,
(which expresses the acuteness of
his senses)
(2)Words are beautiful and
musical.
(3)The ancient Greek and English
poetry provides the most
important
imaginative resource.
(4)The construction
of poems are knit, and the description go
beyond the physical beauty of the world.
(P218-219)
7. Jane Austen was the only
important female author in the
18-19th
century, how do you know about her?
Answer:
Generally speaking, Austen was
writer of the 18th century.
(1)Her novels
always dealt with the romantic entanglement of
the heroines;
(2)She believed in
it that reason over passion, sense of
responsibility, good manners,
and clear
judgment over romance; she honored the Augustan
virtues of moderation,
dignity
disciplined emotion and common sense;
(3)She contempt snobbery, stupidity,
worldliness etc;
(4)Her main concern was
the relationship between men and women
in love;
(5)Her writing range was
limited, all restricted to the
provincial life of the 18th century England;
(6)She presented the quiet, day-
to-day country life of the
middle -upper
-class English.
(7)Her characteristic
theme was: maturity is got by the loss of
illusions. (P223--226)