中国人民大学英美文学 英美文化 英语发展史 英语语言史2003年考研真题考研试题

中国人民大学 2003 年研究生入学考试试题
招生专业：英语语言文学
考试科目：英美文学 英美文化 英语发展史 英语语言史
考试时间：1 月 19 日下午
考题编号：442
一、英美文学
Ⅰ. Define, in complete sentences, the following terms and phrases in English and American
literature. (12 points)
1. neo-classicism
2. blank verse
3. lyric
4.terza rima
5. modernism
6. stream-of-consciousness
Ⅱ. Place each of the following works in its proper century, indicate its genre, and give the
full name of the author.(20 points)
1. In a Station of the Metro
2. From the People, Yes
3. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
4. Mrs. Warren‟s Profession
5. The Hollow Men
6. Self-Reliance
7. ARoom of One‟s Own
8. The Sound and the Fury
9. Break, Break, Break
10. AModest Proposal
Ⅲ. Identify each of the following quotations by giving the title of the work and the full name
of the author, and explain the implications of the underlined parts.(12 points)
1. I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.
Thewilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.
It took dominion everywhere.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.
2. “I thought, Angel, that you loved me—me, my very self! If it is I you do love, O how can
it be that you look and speak so? It frightens me! Having begun to love you, I love you forever—
in all changed, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. I ask no more. Then how can you, O my