英美文学选读2012年4月真题试题及答案解析（00604）

Comment briefly on Robert Frost' s nature poetry.

Discuss briefly Thomas Hardy" s literary achievement in terms of the setting, the literary tendency and literary features.

What is "Hemingway Code Heroes" ?

Give a brief analysis of Emily Grierson , the protagonist of A Rose for Emily by Faulkner.

What is the theme of Jane Austen ' Pride and Prejudice?

What does the poem "The Chimney Sweeper ( from Songs of Experience) " reveal?

We slowly drove---He know no haste,

And I had put away

My labor and my leisure too,

For His Civility-

We passed the School, where Children strove

At Recess -in the Ring

We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain

We passed the Setting Sun

Questions:

A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the above stanzas are taken.

B.What figure of speech is used in Line 1 and Line 4?

C.What do " the School" , " the Fields of Gazing Grain" and the Setting Sun" represent?

Into this fence or fortress, with infinite labour, I carry' d all my riches, all my provisions . ammunition, and stores, of which you have the account above; and I made me a large tent, which, to preserve me from the rains that in one part of the year are very violent there, I made double, viz. one smaller tent. within, and one larger tent above it, and covered the uppermost with a large tarpaulin which I had saved among the sails.

Questions:

A.Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.

B.Who is the narrator?

C.What are the narrator’ s characteristics and whom does he represent?

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

And what I assume you shall assume ,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Questions :

A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.

B.What does the word " you" refer to?

C.What does the poet express in the stanza?

MRS. WARREN. [ after looking at her helplessly, begins to whimper ]Vivie

VIVIE. [ springing up sharply ] Now pray don’t begin to cry. Anything but that. I really cannot stand whimpering. I will go out of the room if you do. 

MRS.WARREN. [ piteously] Oh, my darling, how can you be so hard on me? Have I no rights over you as your mother?

VIVIE. Are you my mother?

MRS. WARREN. [ appalled ] Am I your mother! Oh, Vivie!

VIVIE. Then where are our relatives? my father? our family friends? You claim the rights of a mother: the right to call me fool and child; to speak to me as no woman in authority over me at college dare speak to me; to dictate my way of life; and to force on me the acquaintance of a brute whom anyone can see to be the most vicious sort of London man about town. Before I give myself the trouble to resist such claims, I may as well find out whether they have any real existence.

Questions :

A.Identify the author and the title of the play from which the part is taken.

B.Summarize the theme of the play in one or two sentences.

C.What kind of person is the protagonist Vivie?

One of Henry James' literary techniques innovated to cater for the psychological emphasis is his_________.

More than five hundred poems Emily Dickerson wrote are about nature, in which her general_________ about the relationship between man and nature is well - expressed.

The purpose of Melville' s fictional tales, exotic or philosophical, is to penetrate as deeply as possible into the metaphysical , theological, moral, psychological, and social truths of_________.

According to Whitman, poetry could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the _________rule.

Being a boy" s book specially written for the adults, _________is Mark Twain' s most representative work, describing a journey down the Mississippi undertaken by Huck and Jim.

Compelled by an unceasing interest in the " interior of the heart" of man's being, Hawthorne discusses_________in almost every book he wrote,

It is Henry James' novels and his _________that make him a fascinating case in the American literary history and a conspicuous figure in world literature.

The major concern of Faulkner’s_________ is primarily about the South as a state of mind.

Fitzgerald is a great_________ in American literature and his style is closely related to his themes.

Robert Lee Frost’s_________ won him the first Pulitzer Prizes , which includes " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.

Theodore Dreiser entitled his greatest work with_________intending to tell us that it is the social pressure that makes Clyde' s downfall inevitable.

Greatly and permanently affected by the_________.Hemingway formed his own writing style, together with his theme and hero.

Emily Dickerson's poetry is unique and_________in its own way. For example, her poems have no titles.

While Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the "life" of the Americans , Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “_________” of man.

Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the " single" poem,_________.

_________is best - known as the author of his mighty book, Moby - Dick, which is one of the world' s greatest masterpieces.

According to Hawthorne, there is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but_________may rouse it to activity.

D. H. Lawrence' s two novels,_________.and Women in Love, are generally regarded as his masterpieces.

Hemingway' s To Have and Have Not is one of many to show his characteristics pattern of _________struggling against nature and the environment.

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" . Eliot" s most striking early achievement, presents the meditation of an aging young man over the business of_________.

Dickens' best depicted characters are those innoent , virtuous, persecuted and helpless_________.

The author of the work The Return of the Native is_________.

All o[ the foll plays are among Shakespeare' s four greated tragedies EXCEPT_________.

As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _________defined a good style as " proper words in proper places. "

The work_________shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.

As an important prose writer, in his famous essay , Tradition and Individual Talent, Eliot put great emphasis on the importance of_________,both in creative writing and in criticism.

D. H. Lawrence' s novel_________is a remarkable novel in which the individual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up.

All of the following novels by Thomas Hardy reveal the conflict between the traditional and the. modem EXCEPT_________.

Much of Shavian drama is constructed around the_________of a conventional theatrical situation.

Charlotte Bronte' s most autobiographical work_________, is largely based on her experience in Brussels.

Prometheus, the hero in Shelly's poetic drama Prometheus Unbound, is a figure in_________.

All of the following statements are true of Dickens' later works EXCEPT_________.

Jane Austen's first novel is_________.

For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,_________has been regarded by some as " Father of the English Novel".

_________maintained that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made.

William Blake's _________ was composed during the climax of the French Revolution and it plays the double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.

In the first part of Gulliver' s Travels , Gulliver told his experience in_________.

The work_________written by Daniel Defoe brought him into jail and made him go through public pillory.

Antonio, Bassanio and Portia are the characters in _________.

John Milton wrote_________to expose the ways of Satan and to "justify the ways of God to men. "