英国浪漫主义文学选段作业题

英国浪漫主义文学选段作业题

1. "A little black thing among the snow

Crying "’weep! ’weep! In notes of woe

"where are thy father & mother? Say? "

"They are both gone up to the church to prey."

(1)Identify the poem and poet.

(2)Explain "notes of woe".

(3)What does the sentence mean "they ate both gone up to the church to prey.".

2. "The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!

Where burning Sappho loved and sung,

Where grew the arts of war and peace,

Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!

Eternal summer gilds them all,

But all, except their sun, is set."

(1)Identify the poem and its author;

(2)What does it mean "But all, except their sun, is set."

(3)What does the passage imply?

3. "With plough and spade and hoe and loom

Trace your grave and build your tomb

And weave your winding-sheet---till fair

England be your Sepulcher"

(1)Identify the poem and its author;

(2)Explain "sepulcher"

(3)What was the deep implication of the poem?

4. "Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,

Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,

Sylvan historian, who canst thus express

A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:"

(1)Who is the poet? The name?

(2)Explain the sentence.

(3)What was the theme of the poem?

5. "Place me on Sunium’s marbles steep,

Where nothing, save the waves and I,

May her our mutual murmurs sweep;

There, swan like, let me sing and die:

A land of slaves shall ne’er be mine---

Dash down you cup of Samian wine!"

(1)Identify the poem and its author.

(2)Explain "swan like, let me sing and die" Interpret the passage and spot its implication.

6. "For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dance with the daffodils."

(1) What is the "bliss of the solitude"?

(2) Interpret the passage.

(3) Why did the poet write the poem, what did he want to express?

7. "Then naked & white, all their bags left behind,

They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind,

And the angle told Tom, if he’d be a good bye,

He’d have God for h is father, and never want joy."

(1)Identify the poem and its poet;

(2)What does the poem implies?

8. "As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.

Oh! Lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!

I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed

One too like thee: tameless, and swift and proud."

(1)Explain "I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed"

(2)Can you comprehend the deep emotion contained in the poem? What’s that?

(3)The poet was called the "the heart of all hearts", he trumpeted the radical prophecy of hope and rebirth. Please write out his classic words.