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英国文学常识
Chapter 3 The Romantic Period
III. Questions and answers:
1.Please list the subjects and the faculties of the Romanticism.
Answer:
(1) The subjects are: love, nature, nationalism, individualism,
(2) The faculties they cherished are: imagination, spontaneity, inspiration. (P162)
2.William Wordsworth was the first representative author of Rom,How do you know his idea and style?
Answer:
(1)His poems are most about Nature and Human Life;
(2)Beyond the pleasure of the picturesque with the eye and the external aspects of nature, however, lies in deeper moral awareness, a sense of completeness in multiplicity. (it means poem not only deals with the beautiful world, but express moral)(3)Common life and the joy and sorrow of the common people and inner self are his subjects; (4)He is a poet in memory of the past and was called "prophets of nature";(5)He deliberately writes in simple and ordinary speech ,
refuses to decorate the truth of experience of pure and profound feeling; (6)He thought poet is "a man speaking to men," poetry is "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility."(7)He always writes an elusive beauty of simplicity or a rural figure. (P176-179)
3.What thoughts and event influenced the period of Romanticism?
Answer:(1) Rousseau (a French philosopher) explored new
ideas about nature, society and education, which provided guiding priding principles for the French Revolution and Romanticism; (2) The French Revolution and "the Declaration of Rights of Man"(written by Thomas Paine)aroused the great sympathy and enthusiasm in the English liberals and radicals,which became a great source for Romanticism. (3) England itself had experienced profound economic and social changes as industrialism,which were reflected in the works of literature. (P157-159)
4.Byron’s greatest contribution is his creation of the "Byronic hero" What kind of the hero he is? Give comment on him.
Answer:
(1) "Don Juan" is Byron’s masterpiece, a great comic epic, in which Byron descr ibed
a hero named Don Juan. He was a great lover and seducer of women. In the conventional sense,al positives like courage, generosity, and frankness… In a word, Don was p roud Juan was immoral, but Juan had his own mor, mysterious, and a noble rebel figure. He was a young man with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies, one of rebellious individuals against outworn/outdated social systems and conventions. (2) Comment: The poet’s true intention is to present a panoramic view of different types of society,the main theme of the works the basic ironic theme of appearance and reality,during which the poet also presented various materials and the clash of emotions. (P194-196)
5. What is the difference between Romanticism and Neoclassicism?(Neoclassicism=Augustans=enlightener) Answer:(1)The Romantic Movement expressed negative