英国诗歌欣赏期末考试题(附答案)
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I. Multiple Choice
1. To commerate the
death of his young wife, __________wrote the poem
Annabel Lee.
a. D.H. Lawrence b. John
Milton
c. Philip Phreneau d. Edgar Allan
Poe
2. In Leisure, ____________ thinks that
it is a poor life if “we have no time to stand and
stare”
a. John Keats b. William
Henry Davies
c. Alexander Pope d.
John Donne
3.. In Amy Lowell’s Falling Snow,
the poet says that “When the temple bell rings
again they will
be covered and gone”. “They”
here refers to ______
a. the wooden clogs
b. footprints
c. the pilgrims d.
none of the above
4. The “busy archer”in
Philip Sydney’s To the Moon refers to____
a.
the poet himself b. Cupid
c. a
comrade-in-arms of the poet d. none of the above
5. “Act____act in the glorious present” is
perphaps the most soul-stirring line in
_________’s
poem A Psalm of Life.
a. Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow b. Percy Bissy Shelly
c. Walt Whitman d. Carl
Sandburg
6. In Song of the Rain, _________
paints a rosy picture of happy family life where
the poet is
“Safe in the House with my boyhood
love And our children are asleep in the attic
above”.
a. Kenneth Mackenzie b.
Carl Sandburg
c. Hugh MacCrae
d. Jerard Manley Hopkins
7. “Day brought back
my night” is a well-praised phrase from
__________’s On His Deceased
Wife.
a.
Edgar Allan Poe b. Robert Frost
c. John Milton d. Philip
Sydney
8. In James Shirley’s poem Death the
Leveller, the word “leveller” means
a.
something that reduces everything to nothing
b. something that brings equality to all
c. something that levels the ground
d.
none of the above.
9. What does “Fire” in
Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice symbolize?
a.
war b. anger
c. love d.
desire
10. In John Keat’s poem The Terror of
Death, the phrase “unreflecting love” means
a.
love without calculation b. love without
preparation
c. love never thought of d.
love involving many considerations
II.
Blank Filling
1. One word is too often
________,
For me to ________ it
One
feeling is too ______distained,
For ______ to
distain it
.
2. Make me thy lyre,
even as the ___________ is
What if my _______
are falling like its own,
The __________of thy
mighty harmonies ,
Will take from both a
________autumnal tone
___________Seasons of
mists and mellow __________
Close bosom
friend of the______ sun,
Conspiring with him
how to _______ and bless
With fruit the
vines round the thatch eaves ________
3. When
your are old and grey and full of ________
And
______by the fire,. take down this book
And
slowly read, and dream of the ________beauty
Your eyes had once, and of their ______deep
4. What is this life if, full of __________
We have no time to stand and _______
No time to see, when ______ we pass
Squirrels _______their nuts in grass
III. Authorship Identification
1. In
the world’s broad fields of battle,
In the
bivuac of life,
Be not like dumb,
driven cattle
Be a hero in the strife.
2. The snow whispers about me,
And
my wooden clogs
Leave holes behind me in the
snow,
But no one will pass this way
Seeking my footsteps,
3. Her face
was veil'd; yet to my fancied sight
Love,
sweetness, goodness, in her person shin'd
So
clear, as in no face with more delight.
But
O, as to embrace me she inclin'd
4.
Ethereal minstrel! Pilgrim of the sky!
Dost
thou despise the earth where cares abound?
Or,
while the wings aspire, are heart and eye
Both
with thy nest upon the dewy ground?
Thy nest
which thou canst drop into at will,
Those
quivering wings composed, that music still!
5. No time to turn at beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enric h that smile her eyes began.
Cat
Greening her eyes on the flame litten mat;
Wickedly wakeful, she yawns at the rain
Bending the roses over the pane
7.O
world! O life! O time!
On whose last steps I
climb,
Trembling at that where I had
stood before;
When will return the glory of
your prime?
8. The glories of our blood and
state
Are shadows, not substantials
things;
There is no armor against fate,
Death lays his icy hand on kings
r, ‘midst
falling dew,
While glow the heavens with the
last steps of day,
Far, through their rosy
depths, dost thou pursue
Thy solitary
way?
10. O blest unfabled Incense Tree,
That burns in glorious Araby,
With red
scent chalicing the air,
Till earth-life grow
Elysian there!
IV. True or False
1. Like John Donne, John Milton was a
metaphisical poet because he liked to philosophize
about things.
2. In his lifetime,
Shakespeare published altogether 154 sonnets.
3. A free verse is different from a blank
verse in that its form is much looser than the
latter.
4. Emily Dickinson was the first
woman poet in the United States.
5.
Shakespeare never published any other poems than
sonnets .
6. In Sunflower, William Blake
alludes to a Greek myth about a girl who pined
away and died as
a result of unrequited love
7. Robert Browning’s main contribution to
English poetry is his invention of the “dramatic
monologue”.
8. A major difference between
the 19
th-
century and the 20
th-
century English poetry is that the
former
is more form-conscious while the latter is more
content-conscious.
9. An Italian sonnet
differs from an English sonnet in the way the
message of the poem is
conveyed: the former is
more direct, and the latter indirect.
10.
Poets like to write about nature because they
think nature is beautiful.
V. Terminology
1. Sonnet
2.
imagery
3. meter
4. rhyming scheme
I. 1. d 2. b. 3. b. 4. b. 5. a. 6. c. 7.
c. 8. b. 9. d. 10 a
II.
1. profaned ,
profane, falsely, thee
2. forest, leaves,
tumult, deep,
3. fruitfulness, maturing, load,
run
4. sleep, nodding, soft, shaddows
5.
care, stare, woods, hide
III.
1. Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life
2. Amy
Lowell, Falling Snow
3. John Milton, On His
Deceased Mistress
4. William Wordsworth, To a
Skylark
5. William Henry Davies, Leisure
6. Huge MacCrae, Song of the Rain
7. Pecy
Bishhy Shelly, A Lament
8. James Shirly, Death
the Leveller
9. William Cullen Bryant, To a
Waterfowl
10. George Darley, the Phoenix
IV. 1. F. 2. T. 3. T. 4. F. 5. F. .6 T. 7. T.
8. F. 9 F .10 F
V.
1. sonnet: a form of
poetry that originated in Italy, meaning “short
song”, containing 14
lines that are divided
into an octave and a sestet, though English poets
like Shakespeare
made changes on the structure
by turning it into one comprising 3 quartrains and
one
couplet.
2. imagery: figurative
language used in poetry containing images as
vehicles for expression
of poetical thoughts
on the part of the poet.
3.
meter:systematically arranged and measured rhythm
in verse and a measure of unit of
metrical
verse
4. rhyming scheme: a regular pattern of
rhyme used in verse.