英国诗歌欣赏期末考试题(附答案)

I.Multiple Choice

1.To commerate the death of his young wife, __________wrote the poem Annabel Lee.

a. D.H. Lawrence

b. John Milton

c. Philip Phreneau

d. Edgar Allan Poe

2. In Leisure, ____________ thinks that it is a poor life if “we have no time to stand and stare”

a. John Keats

b. William Henry Davies

c. Alexander Pope

d. John Donne

3.. In Amy Lowell’s Falling Snow, the poet says that “When the temple bell rings again/ they will be covered and gone”. “They” here refers to ______

a. the wooden clogs

b. footprints

c. the pilgrims

d. none of the above

4. The “busy archer”in Philip Sydney’s To the Moon refers to____

a. the poet himself

b. Cupid

c. a comrade-in-arms of the poet

d. none of the above

5. “Act____act in the glorious present”is perphaps the most soul-stirring line in _________’s poem A Psalm of Life.

a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

b. Percy Bissy Shelly

c. Walt Whitman

d. Carl Sandburg

6. In Song of the Rain, _________ paints a rosy picture of happy family life where the poet is “Safe in the House with my boyhood love/ And our children are asleep in the attic above”.

a. Kenneth Mackenzie

b. Carl Sandburg

c. Hugh MacCrae

d. Jerard Manley Hopkins

7. “Day brought back my night”is a well-praised phrase from __________’s On His Deceased Wife.

a. Edgar Allan Poe

b. Robert Frost

c. John Milton

d. Philip Sydney

8. In James Shirley’s poem Death the Leveller, the word “leveller” means

a. something that reduces everything to nothing

b. something that brings equality to all

c. something that levels the ground

d. none of the abov

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9. What does “Fire” in Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice symbolize?

a. war

b. anger

c. love

d. desire

10. In John Keat’s poem The Terror of Death, the phrase “unreflecting love” means

a. love without calculation

b. love without preparation

c. love never thought of

d. love involving many considerations

II.Blank Filling

1.One word is too often ________,

For me to ________ it

One feeling is too ______distained,

For ______ to distain it

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2.Make me thy lyre, even as the ___________ is

What if my _______ are falling like its own,

The __________of thy mighty harmonies ,

Will take from both a ________autumnal tone

___________Seasons of mists and mellow __________

Close bosom friend of the______ sun,

Conspiring with him how to _______ and bless

With fruit the vines round the thatch eaves ________ 3.When your are old and grey and full of ________

And ______by the fire,. take down this book

And slowly read, and dream of the ________beauty

Your eyes had once, and of their ______deep

4.What is this life if, full of __________

We have no time to stand and _______

No time to see, when ______ we pass

Squirrels _______their nuts in grass

III.Authorship Identification

1. In the world’s broad fields of battle,

In the bivuac of life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle

Be a hero in the strife.

2. The snow whispers about me,

And my wooden clogs

Leave holes behind me in the snow,

But no one will pass this way

Seeking my footsteps,

3. Her face was veil'd; yet to my fancied sight

Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shin'd

So clear, as in no face with more delight.

But O, as to embrace me she inclin'd

4. Ethereal minstrel! Pilgrim of the sky!

Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound?

Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye

Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?

Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will,

Those quivering wings composed, that music still!

5. No time to turn at beauty’s glance,

And watch her feet, how they can dance