As a critic of music and drama,_______ thought that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people.

Robert Frost has long been well known as a poet who cam hardy be classified with the old or the new. Briefly discuss the style of his poetry.

As a novelist Jane Austen writes within a very narrow sphere. In her novels, there is little reflection on the events hat sired the whole Europe at the time. Briefly discus the weak points and strong points of the narrowness of her writings.

How do you interpret the meaning of"he damned human race" with reference to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain?

"Young Goodman Brown" by Hawthorne exemplifies the power of blackness in society in genera. What is the metaphorical meaning of Brown's experience in the woods?

What is your comment on the main features of Bernard Shaw's plays in terms of the plots or the talk?

“Who is he" I demanded.“Do you know?" 

“He's just a man named Gatsby." 

"Where is he from, I mean? And what does he do?"

"Now you’re me stared on the subject," she answered with a wan smile.

"Well, he told me once he was an Oxford man."

[A dim background started to take shapes behind him. but at her next remark it faded away.]

However, I don't believe it."

"Why not?"I don't know," she insisted, "I just don't think he went there."

Questions:

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

B.What does Gatsby's failure stand for?

C.What does the underlined sentence mean?

what are the general features of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies?

Almost simultaneously, with a mighty vlitiono of unadulterated, instantaneous swiftness the White Whale darted through the weltering sea. But when Ahab cried out to the steersman to take new tums with the line, and hold, it so; and commanded the crew to turn round on their seats, and tow the boat up to the mark; the moment the treacherous line felt that double strain and tug. it sapped in the empty air!

Questions:

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

B.What scene is depicted in this excerpt?

C.What does the white whale symbolize? And why?

Too well I see and rue the dire event

That with sad overthrow and foul defeat

Hath lost us Heaven, and all this mighty host

In horrible destruction laid thus low,

As far as gods and heavenly essences

Can perish for the mind and spirit remains

Invincible, and vigor so0n returns,

Though all our glory extinct, and happy state

Here swallowed up in endless misery.

Questions:

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

B.What does “the dire event" refer to in the first line?

C.What is the theme of this poem?

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

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Questions:

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

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

C.What is the poet's attitude toward nature?