2011年英美文学大外考研真题

2011年英美文学考研真题（诗歌部分）

一、填空题

1.The Publication of The Waste Land, written by ___T.S.Eliot________ , helped to

established a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.

二、选择题

1. (同2009/二/1)The following fragment is taken from a poem written by______.

A. Robert Burns

B. William Shakespeare

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. Robert Browning

When the sweet showers of April fall and shoot

Down through the drought of March of pierce the root,

Bathing every vein in liquid power

From which there springs the engendering of the flower,

When also Zephyrus with his sweet breath

Exhales an air in every groove and heath

Upon the tender shoots, and the young sun

His half-course in the sign of the Ram has run,

And the small fowls are making melody

That sleep away the night with open eye

(So nature picks them and their heart engages)

The people long to seek the stranger strands

Of far-off saints, hallowed in sundry lands…

2. The following selection is written by _________ .

A. William Shakespeare

B. T.S. Eliot

C. John Keats

D. Mark Twain

The quality of mercy id nit strain’d

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven

Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless’d

It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes:

‘Tis mightiest; it becomes

The throned monarch better than his crown

His scepter shows the force of temporal power

The attribute to awe and majesty,

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;

But mercy is above this sceptred sway,

It is attribute to God himself;

And earthly power doth then show l ikest God’s

When mercy seasons justice. Therefore Jew,

Though justice be thy plea, consider this,

That in the course of justice none of us

Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy,

And that same prayer doth teach us all to render

The deeds of mercy.

3. (同2006/二/9) (同2007/二/7)The author of the following sonnet is ___________ .

A.William Shakespeare

B.Geoffrey Chaucer

C.Edmund Spenser

D.John Milton

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,

I all alone beweep my outcast state

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries

And look upon myself and curse my fate,

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,

Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,

With what I most enjoy contented least;

Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,

Haply I think on thee, and then my state,

Like to the lark at break of day arising

From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings

That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

4. The following fragment is from a poem written by ________ .

A.T.S. Eliot

B.Ezra Pound

C.Gertrude Stein

D.Henry James

Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Let us go; through certain half-deserted streets,

The muttering retreats,

Of restless nights, in one-night cheap hotels,

And sawdust restaurant with oyster-shells:

Streets that follow like a tedious argument

Of insidious intent

To lead you to an overwhelming question…..

Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”

Let us go and make our visit.

5. (同2006/二/10) (同2009/二/7)The following poem is one of the 19 sonnets written by _________ before his ordination.

A.William Shakespeare

B.Geoffrey Chaucer

C.John Donne

D.Thomas Gray

Death be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not soe,

For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow,

Die riot, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.

From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,

Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,

And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,

Rest of their bones, and souls deliverie.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poyson, warre, and sickness dwell,

And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,

And better than thy stroake; why swell’st thou then?

One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,

And death shall be no more, Death thou shalt die.

6. The following fragment is from a poem written by ________ .

A.Robert Burns

B.John Keats

C.Robert Frost

D.Carl Sandburg

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;

Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave

Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;

Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,

Though winning near the goal-yet, do not grieve;

She can not fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,

For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

7.(同2009/二/9)The following fragment is taken fr om a poem entitled “in Just----”

by ____.

A.Hart Crane

B.Robert Frost

C. E. E. Cummings

D.Robinson Jeffer

in Just

spring when the world is mud-

luscious the little

lame balloonman

whistles far and wee

and eddieandbill come

running from marbles and

piracies and its

spring…

8. The following fragment is taken from a poem entitled “I Died For Beauty—but Was

Scarce” by ____.

A.Silvia Plath

B.Eudora Welty

C.Emily Dickinson

D.Maya Angelou

I died for beauty—but was scarce

Adjusted in the Tomb

When one who died for truth, was lain,

In an adjoining Room---

9. The following fragment is taken from a poem entitled The Negro Speaks of Rivers.

What’s the name of the poet?

E.Richard Wright

https://www.360docs.net/doc/b011877702.html,ngston Hughes

G.James Baldwin

H.Toni Morrison

I’ve known rivers:

I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of

Human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep as the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.

I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.

10. The following fragment is taken from a poem entitled Daddy by ______ .

A.Emily Dickinson

B.Maya Angelou

C.Silvia Plath

D.Willa Cather

You do not do, you do not do

Any more, black shoe

In which I have lived like a foot

For thirty years, poor and white,

Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you.

You died before I had time---

Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,

Ghastly statue with one grey toe

Big as a Frisco seal

11.(同2009/二/11)The following fragment is taken from a collection of poems

entitled ____.

A.The Lyrical Ballads

B.Leaves of Grass

C.The Flowers of Evil

D.The Canterbury Tales

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs

to you.

I loafe and invite my soul

I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear

Of summer grass.

12. In the line “So long lives this, and this gives life to thee” of Sonnet 18, Shakespeare _____________.

A.Meditates on man’s m ortality

B.Eulogizes the power of artistic creation

C.Satirizes human vanity

D.Presents a dream vision

12.“O prince, O chief of many throned powers.

That led th’embattled seraphim to war

Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds

Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual King.”

In the third line of the above fragment quoted from Milton’s Paradise Lost, the phrase “thy conduct” refers to ________ conduct.

A.Satan’s

B.God’s

C.Adam’s

D.Eve’s

13.“Metaphysical poetry” refers to the works of the 17th century writers who wrote

under the influence of ______________ .

A.John Milton

B.Christopher Marlowe

C.John Donne

D.John Bunyan

14.Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought to its last

perfection ____________ Dryden had successfully used in his plays.

A.the heroic couplet

B.the free verse

C.the blank verse

D.the Spenserian stanza

15. The poetic view of __________ can be best understood from his remark about poetry, that is, “all goog poetry is the spontaneous overflow of power feelings.”

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. John Keats

C. William Wordsworth

D. Percy Bysshe Shelley

15.In The Lake Isle of Innisfree William Butler Yeats expresses his ________.

A.desire to escape from the materialistic society

B.fear caused by the impending war

C.interest in the Irish legends

D.love for Maud Gonne, a beautiful Irish actress

16.Walt Whitman was a founding figure of American poetry. His innovation first of

all lies in his use of ______, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.

A.blank verse

B.heroic couple

C.free verse

D.iambic pentameter

三、主观题

1. The following is a fragment taken from a lyric written by Robert Browning “My Last

Duchess”. Analyze this fragment with reference to the entire poem.

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,

Looking as if she were alive. I call

That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands

Worked busily a day, and there she stands.

Will 't please you sit and look at her? I said

'Frà Pandolf' by design, for never read

Strangers like you that pictured countenance,

The depth and passion of its earnest glance,

But to myself they turned (since none puts by

The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)

And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,

How such a glance came there; so, not the first

Are you to turn and ask thus.

………………………………………………

I repeat,

The Count your master's known munificence

Is ample warrant that no just pretence

Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;

Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed

At starting，is my object. Nay, we'll go

Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,

Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,

Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

This poem is loosely based on historical events involving Alfonso, th e Duke of Ferrara, who lived in the 16th century. The Duke is the spe aker of the poem, and tells us he is entertaining an emissary who has come to negotiate the Duke’s marriage (he has recently been widowed ) to the daughter of another powerful family. As he shows the visitor through his palace, he stops before a portrait of the late Duchess, apparently a young and lovely girl. The Duke begins reminiscing about the portrait sessions, then about the Duchess herself. His musings g ive way to a diatribe on her disgraceful behavior: he claims she flir ted with everyone and did not appreciate his “gift of a nine-hundred -years- old name.” As his monologue continues, the reader realizes w ith ever-more chilling certainty that the Duke in fact caused the Duc hess’s early demise: when her behavior escalated, “[he] gave comman ds; / Then all smiles stopped together.” Having made this disclosure , the Duke returns to the business at hand: arranging for another mar riage, with another young girl. As the Duke and the emissary walk lea ve the painting behind, the Duke points out other notable artworks in his collection.