英美文学选读2008年7月真题试题及答案解析（00604）

Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction：the setting，the character — portrayal，the language，etc.，based on his novel Oliver Twist.

Greatly and permanently affected by the war experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style，together with his theme and hero. Please discuss Hemingway’s writing style in relation to his novels you have read.

What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction?And what is his favourite approach in characterization，which makes him different from Mark Twain and W.D.Howells as a realist? Give two titles of his first period works in which this theme and this approach are employed.

As a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”，what principles does Ezra Pound endorse?

TheWaste Land is T.S.Eliot’s most important single poem.Try to state the theme and the significance of the poem briefly.

“I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight, I got from looking through a pane of glass,I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough,And held against the world of hoary grass.”

Questions：

A.Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.

B.What does the word “strangeness’’ refer to?

C.What do the quoted lines imply?

As a leading Romanticist，Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic Hero”.Briefly explain the literary term “Byronic Hero’’.

“My tongue，every atom of my blood，form’d from this soil，this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same，and their parents the same，I，now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin，Hoping to cease not till death”

Questions：

A.Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.

B.What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?

C.What does the poet try to say in the above four lines?

“The fiver glideth at his own sweet will：

Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from William Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”)

Questions：

A.What figure of speech is used in the quoted lines?

B.What does “that mighty heart’’ refer to?

C.What does the poem decribe?

“When the stars threw down their spears,And water’d heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”

Questions：

A.Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken

B.Whom does the “he’’ refer to?

C.What does the “Lamb” symbolize?

Almost every book written by Hawthorne discusses ______，which reflects his unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart” of man’s being.

A preoccupation with the ______view of original sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne，Melville and a host of lesser writers.

The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values in the American Romantic period.

In general, the American woman poet ______ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being，and so she did，as a spinster.

Theodore Dreiser’s ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote in which “kill or to be killed” was the law.

William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the______society but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.

One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human ______.

Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originated，to a great extent，from ______.

Naturalism is evolved from ______ when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pessimistic.

By writing ______ Melville reached the most flourishing stage of his literary creativity.

What Walt Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______，”that is，poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.

Shortly before his death in 1945，______joined the Communist Party.

People generally regarded ______ as the forerunner of the 20th — century “stream- of-consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.

According to______, “There is evil in every human heart，which may remain latent，perhaps，through the whole life;but circumstances may rouse it to activity.”

Hemingway once described the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”

North of Boston is described by the author，Robert Frost，as “a book of people，’’ which shows a brilliant insight into ______ character and the background that formed it.

The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is ______.

“Life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss becomes dignity;man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually.” This notion is typically held by ______.

In Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.

In the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde，the upper — class people are described all of the following EXCEPT ______.

Among the following figures ______is Dickens’ first child hero.

Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques，writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common，that is，they were all concerned about ______.

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’’ The quoted line comes from ______.

The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision，” and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative’’ belongs to ______.

Daniel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English middle — class man of the eighteenth century，the very prototype of the empire builder，the pioneer colonist.

All of the following poets are regarded as “Lake Poets” EXCEPT ______.

“To be, or not to be — that is the question;/whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer，/the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, /And by opposing end them?” The quoted lines are taken from ______.

As a representative of the Enlightenment，______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.

Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______.

Among the following writers ______ is considered to be the best— known English dramatist since Shakespeare.

Among the following British Romantic poets ______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.

Among the three major poetical works by John Milton ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.

Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about ______.

The major British Romantic poets Blake，Wordsworth，Coleridge，Byron，Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature，which was later regarded as ______.

All of the following statements can correctly describe the Enlightenment Movement EXCEPT ______.

George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is about______.

“Do you think, because I am poor，obscure，plain，and little，I am soulless and heartless?... And if God had gifted me with some beauty，and much wealth，I should have made it as hard for you to leave me. as it is now for me to leave you. ”The quoted part is taken from ______.

The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” established ______ as the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day，especially “the Graveyard School”.

The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT ______.

Of all the eighteenth—century British novelists ______ was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specially a “comic epic in prose”，the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.