In English Romantic period "Lake Poets" refers to Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and_________.

Discuss Melville' s symbolism in Moby - Dick.

What is Walt Whitman’s poetic style?

Discuss Charles Dickens' features in character portraying.

Please summarize Emily Dickinson" s poetry features.

William Shakespeare is one of the moat remarkable playwrights the world has ever known. What are his four greatest tragedies? What are the characteristic of the four tragedies in common?

"They rose when she entered- -a small, fut woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. [Her skeleton was small and spare perhaps that was why what would have been. merely plumpness in another was obesity in her.] She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face. to another while the visitors stated their errand.”

Questions:

A.Who is the writer of the story? What is the title of the story?

B.What" s the meaning of the underlined sentence?

C.What can you infer from the passage about the protagonist?

What do you think T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land presents and reflects?

". I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere apes and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made the difference.'

Questions:

A."Who is the writer of the poem? What' s the title of the poem?

B.What additional meaning do the two roads have?

C.What dilemma is the speaker facing?

" Will no one tell me what she sings? -

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

For old, unhappy, far - off things,'

And battle long ago;

Or is it some more humble lay,'

Familiar matter of today?

Some natural sorrow loss, or pain,

That has been, and may be again?"

( From William Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper")

Questions:

A.What does the phrase plaintive numbers" mean?

B.What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

C.What do you think Wordsworth intends to suggest in the poem?

“Man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually . This is an attitude towards life that_________had been tying to illustrate in his writing.