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欢迎报考广东商学院硕士研究生,祝你考试成功!(第 1 页 共 4 页) 1 广东商学院硕士研究生入学考试试卷 考试年度:20011 年 考试科目代码及名称:807-英美文学 适用专业:050201-英语语言文学 [友情提醒:请在考点提供的专用答题纸上答题,答在本卷或草稿纸上无效!] I. Define the following five terms. (25 points in all, 5 points for each within 120 words) 1. Metaphysical poetry 2. Free Verse 3. Ezra Pound 4. Couplet 5. Novel II. Multiple choice. In this part, there are 20 statements or questions; in each of them, there are four choices marked by a, b, c, and d. Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the statement or question. (20 points in all, 1 point for each) 1. “ It little profits that an idle king, / By this still hearth, among these barren crags, / Matches with an aged wife, mete and dole / Unequal laws unto a savage race, / That hoard, and sleep, and fee, and know not me….”. The above poetic lines come from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Ulysses. Compared with Tennyson, James Joyce’s was banned in both Britain and America on its first appearance in 1922, with its earlier serialization in the Little Review having had to stop abruptly when the U. S. Post Office brought a charge of obscenity against it. a. Ulysses b. The Odyssey c. Dubliners d. Finnegans Wake 2. Most of the poems from Walt Whitman’s poetry anthology are about man and nature. However, a small number of very good poems deal with New York, the city that fascinated Whitman, and with the Civil War, in which he served as a volunteer male nurse. a. Grass Leaves b. Leaves of Grass c. Song of Myself d. Crossing the Bar 3. Emerson’s truest disciple, the man who put into practice many of Emerson’s theories, was . Coming under Emerson’s influence, he lived for more than a year in Emerson’s house, doing chores and serving as a general handyman, and most important of all, absorbing many of the older man’s ideas. a. T. S. Eliot b. Ezra Pound c. Henry David Thoreau d. Robert Frost 4.The famous and summary poetic line “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” is taken from John Keats’ . a. “Ode to the West Wind” b. “Ode to the Nightingale c. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” d. “Ode on Melancholy 5. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line from
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