中英文诗歌鉴赏

中英文诗歌鉴赏考试题目与答案

1．In regard to what Poetry is, one of the traditional definitions in China is “poetry is to sing what is in the heart”; (原文为：诗者，吟咏情性也。) thousands of years later, the great poet in Britain Wordsworth interprets poetry as “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” (可译为：诗是强烈情感的自然流露), please make a comment on the two definitions of poetry above. You may answer in either English or Chinese.

答：中国诗歌重在言志抒情。由于人们的社会地位不同，所以反映的志愿也不一样，如李贺的《南园十三首》之五：“男儿何不带吴钩，收取关山五十州。请君暂上凌烟阁，若个书生万户侯？”表达了诗人的不得志。杜甫的“安得广厦千万间，大庇天下寒士俱欢颜，风雨不动安如山。”表达了诗人忧国忧民的情怀。而西方诗歌重在对感情的自然流露。

2．Auditory effect is of great value in reading a poem. What are the elements contributing to the auditory effect in Chinese poems and English poems? Please answer the question above with some examples. You may answer in either English or Chinese.

答：CP:

1. Effects achieved by monosyllabic nature of the characters.

2.Effects achieved by possession of fixed tones of the characters.

3.Effects achieved by other devices (rime,alliteration,riming compounds, reduplication,onomatopoeia )

rime:

静女其姝，俟我於城隅。

爱而不见，搔首踟蹰。

静女其娈，贻我彤管。

彤管有炜，说怿女美。

自牧归荑，洵美且异。

匪女以为美，美人之贻。

Analysis:The poem is mainly in four- syllabic line, with an occasional extra syllable (in stanza I, line2, and stanza III, line3) the rime scheme is :AAOA,BBCC,DDCD

alliteration:

茌苒星霜换，回还节候催

riming compounds :

雾树行相引连山望忽开

reduplication: 青青河畔草，郁郁园中柳。

onomatopoeia:关关雎鸠，在河之洲

EP:

1.Syllable, Syllabification and Stress:

For example:

morning 0 o

verbalize 0 o o

tomorrow o 0 o

2.The Foot Formation or the Meter Type Stressed and unstressed syllables in speech or writing, if arranged with regularity, form a stress pattern or stress patterns.

amphibrach: o 0 o amphimacer: 0 o 0

antibacchius: 0 0 o antispast: o 0 0 o

3.The Line Structure

The Assyr- / ian came down / like a wolf / on the fold,

o o O /o o O/ o o O/ o o O

5.The Rhyme and Other Sound Devices

i. Single Rhyme, or Masculine Rhyme Repetition of one vowel, either a single vowel, or a diphthong

ii. Double Rhyme, or Feminine Rhyme Two vowels repeated

iii. Triple Rhyme, or Multiple Rhyme

iv. The Coincidence of Numeral Types

3. Translate the following principle advocated by Ezra Pound into Chinese and make a comment on it in English.

To present an image (hence the name: "Imagist"). We are not a school of painters, but we believe that poetry should render particulars exactly and not deal in vague generalities, however magnificent and sonorous. It is for this reason that we oppose the cosmic poet, who seems to us to shirk the real