常耀信《美国文学简史》(第3版)配套题库【章节题库(含名校考研真题)】第11章~第14章【圣才出品】

第11章20世纪20年代•意象派•庞德

I.Fill in the blanks.

1.“In a Station of the Metro”by Ezra Pound goes like this:The apparition of these faces in the crowd;_____.（首师大2008研）

【答案】Petals on a wet,black bough.

【解析】这是意象派诗人庞德的名作，意为：人群中这些面孔幽灵一般显现，湿漉漉的黑色枝条上许多花瓣。

2._____,by Ezra Pound,employs the complex association of scholarly lore, anthropology,modern history and personages,private history and Witticism,and obscure literary interpolations in various languages.（人大2006研）

【答案】The Cantos

【解析】庞德的《诗章》包罗万象，是庞德的代表作。

3.Author_____Title_____.（南京大学2007研）

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet,black bough.

【答案】Author:Ezra Pound Title:“In a Station of the Metro”

【解析】题目节选自庞德的《在一个地铁车站》，该诗是以一个意象作为叙述语言的典型范例。

4.Ezra Pound’s lifelong endeavor had been devoted to the writing of_____,which contains_____poems.（国际关系学院2007研）

【答案】The Cantos;117

【解析】庞德把毕生精力都投入到写作《诗章》当中，《诗章》共包括117首诗。

5.Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the“_____”movement.

【答案】imagism

【解析】庞德是意象主义运动的领军人物。

II.Multiple Choice

1.Imagist poems are mainly composed in the form of_____.（北二外2008研）

A.blank verse

B.free verse

C.sonnet

D.Quatrain

【答案】B

【解析】意象派诗人主张诗歌创作在韵律上突破英诗传统格律五音步抑扬格的限制，追求一种更加灵活的自由体。

2.The Imagist writers followed three principles.They respectively are direct treatment,economy of expression and_____.

A.local color

B.irony

C.clear rhythm

D.blank verse

【答案】C

【解析】意象主义在其宣言中提出了三大原则，分别是：（1）直接主观或客观地描绘“事物”；（2）不使用任何与表达该事物无关的词语；（3）至于诗歌的韵律，应按音乐的小节而不是按节拍器来组织。

3._____showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po(Li Bai)into English,and was influenced by Confucian ideas.

A.Ezra Pound

B.Robert Frost

C.T.S.Eliot

D.E.E.Cummings

【答案】A

【解析】庞德对中国文学很感兴趣，他将李白的诗歌翻译成英文，并且深受儒家思想的影响。

4._____championed the imagist movement from1912to1914,setting down the imagist principles.Then Amy Lowell led the movement into the period of “Amygism,”as Pound called it,from1914to1917.

A.T.S.Eliot

B.H.D

C.Ezra Pound

D.Carl Sandburg

【答案】C

【解析】庞德是意象主义第一阶段的领导者，而艾米·洛威尔是第二个阶段的领导者

III.Explain the following terms.

1.Imagism（北外2009研；南开大学2009研；北京邮电大学2010研）

Key:Imagism is a literary movement which came into being in Britain and U.S. around1910as a reaction to the traditional English poetry to express the sense of fragmentation and dislocation.The imagists,with Ezra Pound leading the way, hold that the most effective means to express these momentary impressions is through the use of one dominant image.Imagism is characterized by the following three poetic principles:i)direct treatment of subject matter;ii) economy of expression;iii)as regards rhythm,to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase,not in the sequence of metronome.Ezra Pound’s“In a Station of the Metro”is a well-known imagist poem.

2.Avant-Garde（上海交大2007研）

Key:Avant-garde,the French military and political term for the vanguard of an army or political movement,extended since the late19th century to avant-garde