_______tells a story of Mark Twain’ s boyhood ambition to become a riverboat pilot.

Briefly discuss why Jonathan Swift is a master satirist based on his greatest novel Gulliver’ s Travels.

Briefly discuss the theme of Walt Whitman’ s volume of poems Leaves of Grass.

What does Ernest Hemingway tell about in his short story Indian Camp?

How does Emily Dickinson deal with the subject love?

Why is character-portrayal the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works?

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one travel, long I stood

And looked down as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as far that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same.

Question:

A.Identify the poet.

B.What does the phrase “wanted wear” mean?

C.What does the speaker want to tell us?

What does Shakespeare write in his history plays?

I grow old...I grow old...

I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind?

Do I dare to eat a peach?

I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beath.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

Question:

A.Identify the poet.

B.Is it a romantic poem?

C.What’s the theme of the poem?

By chance of nature’ s changing course untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in hist shade,

When it eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and thus gives life to thee.

Question:

A.Identify the poet of the stanza.

B.What’s the theme of the poem?

C.What do the last two lines express?

We passed the School, where Children strove

At Recess---in the Ring---

We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain---

We passed the Setting Sun---

Or rather---He passed Us---

The Dews drew quivering and chill---

For only Gossamer, my Grown---

My Tipper---only Tulle---

Question:

A.Identify the poet.

B.What do “ the School” and “the Setting Sun” represent?

C.What does the poet want to express in this poem?