We paused before a House that seemed

A welling of the Ground ---

The Roof was scarcely visible---

The Cornice--- in the Ground---

Since then---'tis Centuries---and yet

Feels shorter than the Day

I first surmised the Horses' Heads

Were toward Eternity---

Questions:

A.Who wrote this poem?

B.What does the House in the first line refer to?

C.What is the theme of this poem?

Give a brief comment on T. S. Eliot and his The Waste Land.

Hemingway's world is limited and he measures his limited range of characters against an unvarying code. Briefly discuss this code established by Hemingway through his writings.

How did Theodore Dreiser contribute to the American literature through his literary creation?

How do you comment on Whitman’ s literary innovation in terms of the form of his poetry?

So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. That was two years after her father's death and a short time after her sweetheart--- the one we believed would marry her ---had deserted her. After her father’s death she went out very little after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. A few of the ladies had the temerity to call, but were not received, and the only sign of life about the place was the Negro man--- a young man then--- going in and out with a market basket

Questions:

A.What is the title of the story from which the excerpt is taken?Who is the author?

B.What does the phrase "horse and foot" in the first line mean?

C.What does the heroine of this story symbolize?

Why is Charlotte Bronte considered as a writer of realism combined with romanticism?

In what way is Thomas Hardy regarded as a transitional writer?

We paused before a House that seemed

A welling of the Ground ---

The Roof was scarcely visible---

The Cornice--- in the Ground---

Since then---'tis Centuries---and yet

Feels shorter than the Day

I first surmised the Horses' Heads

Were toward Eternity---

Questions:

A.Who wrote this poem?

B.What does the House in the first line refer to?

C.What is the theme of this poem?

“Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! How can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair.

And how he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish, they did not melt.

Questions:

A.What is the title of the novel from which the excerpt is taken? Who is the author?

B.Who are the two speakers?

C.What does this excerpt tell us about the speakers?

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host of golden daffodils;

...

For oft, when on my couch lie

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 dances with the daffodils.

Questions:

A.What is the title of the poem from which the stanzas are taken? Who is the author?

B.What figure of speech is used in the first line?

C.What do "they" and "inward eye" in the poem refer to in the last stanza?