厦门大学2003年硕士研究生入学考试文学[英语语言专业]考研试题

厦门大学2003年硕士研究生入学考试文学[英语语言专业]考研试题 Part Three Literature I. Name the authors of the following works or lines of poems: 10 points 1. Lady Chatterley’s Lover 2. The Heart of Darkness 3. The Last of Mohicans 4. The Sun Also Ris

厦门大学2003年硕士研究生入学考试文学[英语语言专业]考研试题

Part Three Literature
I. Name the authors of the following works or lines of poems: 10 points
1. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
2. The Heart of Darkness
3. The Last of Mohicans
4. The Sun Also Rises
5. I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul
6. Much Madness is divinest Sense--
7. I took the one less traveled by,/ And that has made all the difference.
8. The Trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind,/ If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
9. Do I dare/ Disturb the universe? / In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions      which a minute will reverse.
10. Alone, alone, all, all alone, /Alone on a wide, wide sea!

II. Answer ONE of the two questions concerning American literature:7%
1. Give a brief account of the central theme and the significance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
2. State briefly the difference between the “Lake Poets” (Wordsworth and Coleridge) and the more socially-and historically-concerned romantic poets such as Byron and Shelly. Prove your points with specific evidence from their poems.

III. Describe and make a comment on TWO of the following characters from English literature (1---4) and ANOTHER TWO from American literature (5—8)

1. Beowulf  2. Guilliver   3. Mrs Warren  4. Mr Allworthy

5. Natty Bumppo  6. Daisy Buchanan  7. Tom Sawyer  8. Ma Joad (Grapes of Wrath)

IV. Read the poem and answer the questions below :10 points

The sonnet-ballad
Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?
They took my lover’s tallness off to war.
Left me lamenting . Now I cannot guess.
What I can use an empty heart-cup for*
He won’t be coming back here any more
Some day the war will end, but, oh, I knew
When he went walking grandly out that door
That my sweet love would have to be untrue.
Would have to be untrue. Would have to court
Coquettish death*, whose impudent and strange
Possessive arms and beauty (of a sort)
Can make a hard man hesitate---and change.
And he will be the one to stammer, “Yes.”
Oh, mother, mother, where is happiness?

Note:
1. An empty heart-cup: Her heart, like a cup , has been emptied.
2. Coquettish death: a personification of death as a coquette, a vamp, a seductress.
Questions:
1. What is the situation in the poem?
2. Discuss the metaphor used in the poem.
3. What kind of feeling is expressed through the poem?