英美文学选读第五章笔记Modern period

第五章

I.Multiple choice

1.Contrary to the traditional romance of aristorcrats(貴族),the modern

English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of : the common English

people

2.the middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary

form, that is modern English novel, which gives a realistic presentation of

life of the common English people

3.who is the first :Angry young Man

Osborne

4.George Bernard Shaw is considered to be the best –known english

dramatist since Shakespeare

5.George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s prefession （沃倫夫人的職業）

is a realistic exposure of the economic exploitation of women in the

English society 對婦女經濟上的壓迫

6.the following comments on George Bernard Shaw are ture excepte

A.george bernard Shaw’s career as dramatist began in 1892 . when his

first play Widowers’s houses was put on by the Independent Theater

Society

他的第一部戲“鰥夫的房產”由“獨立劇社”上演

B.Shaw began his his literary career by writing novels soon after his

settling down in London

C.Shaw’s writings reflect the combination of realism and naturalism

D.Shaw’s plays can be termed as problems plays

倒轉錯位

7.Galsworthy was a conventional writer, having inherited the fine traditions

of the great victorial novelists of the critical realism such as Dickens and

Thackeray

高爾斯華綏是傳統型作家，繼承了維多利亞時期文學家的優良風格

8.in ―the Forsyte Saga‖費爾塞特世家by John Galsworthy , a typical

forsyte has a remarkable characteristic---a strong sense of property

弗爾塞特家族盛行的佔有欲與唯利是圖，這種佔有欲深刻影響到家族

內的人際關系，同時也反映出當時的英國社會人與人之間赤裸裸的金錢

關系

9.sailing to byzantium written by Yeats is a poem exploring the problem of

death, love, old age and art

駛向拜佔庭，葉芝揭示了死亡，愛情，衰老與藝術的問題，拜佔庭這個城市座落在東方與西方的交界處，成了時光流逝的場所，同時靈魂的顯現出沒又象征了煉獄與天堂這兩個對立事物的統一，一旦脫離凡塵或曰死去，詩中的老者便進入長青知識的紀念碑，進入永恆的世界，在這裡，藝術是亙古不變的

10.in the lake istle of Innisfree伊尼斯弗利的湖中沙洲, william butler yeats

expresses his desire to escape into a fairyland

11.we can find the allusion to Helen(海倫) and the Trojan war特洛伊by

willian bulter yeats ----Leda and the Swan 麗達同天鵝

12.the waste land荒原by T.S.Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of

the 20th century English poetry

荒原是埃略特最重要的獨立詩篇，被益為20世紀英國詩歌的代表與典范，可與華茲華斯的“抒情歌謠集”相媲美，這首詩對修辭與文體風格進行了大膽的革新，不僅全面展現了現代西方社會物質上的錯亂和精神上的頹敗，而且反映出戰後一代人中盛行的幻滅與絕望

13.the yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes

黃色的霧在窗玻璃上擦著它的背

The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the windowpanes

黃色的煙在窗玻璃上擦著它的嘴

Linked its tongue into the corners of the evening

把它的舌頭舔進黃昏的角落裡

Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains

徘徊在快要幹涸的水坑上

The stanza is taken from T.S. Eliot’s the love song of J.Alfred prufrock (J.A.

布魯富勞克的情歌)

Love song of J.A Prufrock ：它講述了一位上了年紀的男人對求婚問題的深思不定，全詩的形式是戲劇獨白，暗示了虛假的情歌與主人公自已承認的無法直面愛情及無聊的上流社會生活之間諷刺性對照，Prufrock ,詩中主人公是個神經質，自以為是，不講羅輯以及優柔寡斷的人物，他是一個悲劇性角色，被陷在理想毀滅與欲望得不到滿足的痛苦中,詩歌的背景是一個彬彬有禮的社會，如同蒲柏的“奪發記”中描寫的上流社會的---茶點聚會極為重要的大事，打牌是排譴空虛的唯一途徑, 這首詩是反浪漫主義的，詩中的比喻與意象都不十會優美，氣氛也陰沉如地獄