英国浪漫主义时期文学历年实考试题解析

1. （天津外国语大学2016年硕士研究生入学考试试题） In "The Preface" to Lyrical Ballads ,________explains his theory of poetry that poetry is "the spontaneous overfow of powerful emotion" “recollected in tranquility” by men of deep feeling and much thought.

参考答案 ：William Wordsworth

2. （北京交通大学2016年硕士研究生入学考试试题：作家作品）

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard

Are sweeter, therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;

Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,

Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:

参考答案 ：John Keats; Ode on a Grecian Urn

3. （国际关系学院2016年硕士研究生入学考试试题：名词解释） ode

参考答案 ： It is a lyric poem, usually in elaborate form, typically to praise or glorify an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally.

4. （首都师范大学2015年硕士研究生入学考试试题）

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They fash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure flls,

And dances with the daffodils.

Name the author of this poem.

参考答案 ：W. Wordsworth

5. （天津外国语大学2015年硕士研究生入学考试试题） "Season of mists andmellow fruitfulness,/Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;/Conspiring with him how to load and bless/With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;" from John Keats's__________.

参考答案：Ode: To Autumn

6. （天津外国语大学2014年硕士研究生入学考试试题） The lines "The Trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind,/ if Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" are quoted from P.B. Shelley's ___________.

参考答案： Ode to the West Wind

7. （北京第二外国语学院2013年硕士研究生入学考试试题） "The Lamb" isincluded in William Blake's_______.

A. Poetical Sketches

B. Songs of Innocence

C. The Songs of Experience

D. Marriage of Heaven and Hell

答案：B

8. （天津外国语大学2016年硕士研究生入学考试试题：名词解释） Gothhic novel

参考答案 ： (1) Gothic novel is a type of romance very popular in the late18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century. (2) Gothic novel emphasizes things which are grotesque, violent, mysterious, supernatural, desolate and horrifying. (3) Gothic, originally in the sense of "medieval, not classical," was applied by Horace Walpole to his novel The Castle of Otranto , a Gothic story, published in 1765. (4)With its descriptions of the dark, irrational side of human nature, Gothic novel has exerted a great influence over the writers of the Romantic period. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are typical Gothic romances.

9. （武汉大学2014年硕士研究生入学考试试题：名词解释） Romanticism

参考答案 ： (1) In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called Romanticism came to Europe and then to England. (2) It was characterized by a strong protest against the bondage of neoclassicism, which emphasized reason, order and elegant wit. Instead, romanticism gave primary concern to passion, emotion, and natural beauty. (3) In the history of literature, romanticism is generally regarded as the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.

10. （四川大学2012年硕士研究生入学考试试题） The word which best describes the tone of the poem When We Two Parted is ________.

A. sentimental

B. ironic

C. paradoxical

D. realistic

答案：A

11. （武汉大学2011年硕士研究生入学考试试题：填空题） ________usuallystresses the close relationship between man and nature. He views nature as a source of physical beauty, a revelation of truth, a manifestation of spirit in the universe,and the living garment of God.

答案 ：John Keats

12. （武汉大学2010年硕士研究生入学考试试题） In "Preface to Lyrical Ballads ,"Wordsworth gives his definition for good poetry: for all good poetry is the _______overflo of powerful feeling.

A. natural

B. spontaneous

C. impulsive

D. artless

答案：B

13. （中国人民大学2003年英语专业硕士研究生入学考试试题：名词解释题）Terza rima

参考答案： (1) Terza rima is an Italian verse that consists of a series of three-line stanzas in which the middle line of each stanza rhymes with the firs and third lines of the following stanza with the rhyming scheme a b a, b c b, c d c, d e d, etc. (2) Shelley's Ode to the West Wind is a case in point.

14. （南开大学2003年英语专业硕士研究生入学考试试题：名词解释题） Ode

参考答案： (1) An ode is a lyric poem of some length, dealing with a lofty theme in a dignifie manner and originally intended to be sung. (2) John Keats wrote great odes in English literature. His Ode on a Grecian Urn is a case in point.

15. （华东师范大学2002年英语专业硕士研究生入学考试试题：问答题） What arethe major features of the Romantic Movement in Britain between 1790 and 1830?

参考答案： (1) The English Romantic period is an age of poetry. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are the major Romantic poets. (2) They started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, which was later regarded as the poetic revolution. They believed that poetry could purify both individual souls and the society. (3) The Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798 acts as a manifesto for the English Romanticism. (4) The Romantics not only eulogize the faculty of imagination, but also stress the concept of spontaneity and inspiration, regarding them as something crucial for true poetry. (5) The natural world comes to the forefront of the poetic imagination. Nature is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter. (6) They advocate freedom from classical rules and traditions. (7) Romantics turn to the humble people and their everyday life for subjects. (8) Romantic writers are always seeking for the Absolute, the Ideal through the transcendence of the actual. (9) They prefer to write about something exotic, remote, mysterious, weird, monstrous, and even satanic.

16. （中南工业大学2000年、浙江大学2002年英语专业硕士研究生入学考试试题：论述题） Give a brief account of the contributions which William Wordsworth made to the development of the English poetry.

参考答案： (1) As a great Romantic poet, Wordsworth made great contributions to the development of the English poetry. (2) His Lyrical Ballads , written with Coleridge, is generally regarded as the symbol of the beginning of the Romantic period in England. (3) He define the poet as a speaking to men and poetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility. (4) Wordsworth is regarded as a worshipper of nature. Nature stands out in his poetry. A case in point is I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud , one of the most beautiful poems in English literature. (5) He sympathizes with the poor, and their joys and sorrows are his constant themes. (6) His poetry is characterized by simplicity and purity of his language. (7) Wordsworth is the leading figur of the English Romantic poetry, the major poetic voice of the period. The most important contribution he has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry but also changed the course of English poetry. (8) He is one of English Lake Poets.

17. （北京大学 2017 年硕士研究生入学试题：诗歌鉴赏）

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That float 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.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay.

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in springhtly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed—and gazed—but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flas upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills

And dances with the daffodils.

Please analyze this poem in detail.

参考答案： This poem is written by English romantic poet, William Wordsworth,named I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud . The four six-line stanzas of this poem follow a quatrain-couplet rhyme scheme: ABABCC. Each line is metered in iambic tetrameter. In this poem, the speaker says that, wandering like a cloud floatin above hills and valleys, he encountered a fiel of daffodils beside a lake. The dancing, flutterin flower stretched endlessly along the shore, and though the waves of the lake danced beside the flowers the daffodils outdid the water in glee. The speaker says that a poet could not help but be happy in such a joyful company of flowers He says that he stared and stared, but did not realize what wealth the scene would bring him. For now, whenever he feels "vacant"or "pensive," the memory flashe upon “that inward eye / That is the bliss of solitude,” and his heart fills with pleasure, “and dances with the daffodils.” This simple poem, one of the loveliest and most famous in the Wordsworth canon, revisits the familiar subjects of nature and memory, this time with a particularly spare, musical eloquence. The plot is extremely simple, depicting the poet's wandering and his discovery of a fiel of daffodils by a lake, the memory of which pleases him and comforts him when he is lonely, bored, or restless. The characterization of the sudden occurrence of a memory—the daffodils “flas upon the inward eye / Which is the bliss of solitude”—is psychologically acute, but the poem's main brilliance lies in the reverse personifcation of its early stanzas. The speaker is metaphorically compared to a natural object, a cloud—“I wandered lonely as a cloud / That float on high...”, and the daffodils are continually personifie as human beings, dancing and “tossing their heads” in “a crowd, a host.” This technique implies an inherent unity between man and nature, making it one of Wordsworth's most basic and effective methods for instilling in the reader the feeling the poet so often describes himself as experiencing. z57TNe/u7y9AWQADKqRBhOTOjbcNtXaXL0alvGCUjfVgS3H8HLULl3uMAUuJLZjb