陕师大翻译系期末考试参考试题及答案

一.野金银花

1 The poem was written in regular 6-line tetrameter stanzas, rhyming: ababcc .The structure of the poem is regular ,so it has the neoclassic quality of proportion and balance.In this poem the poet expressed a keen awareness of the loveliness and transience of nature.1.He not only meditated on mortality but also celebrated nature.It implies that life and death are inevitable law of nature, "the wild honey suckle"is Philip Freneau's most widely read natureal lyric with the theme of transience.2.The poem express the poet's view about the writing material of American writors.In the author's opinion, the origin land in America was fiiled with beauty and myth,which could compete with the rilics of Europ.It revealed on the basis of American beauty, the American writor can produce good works.

.2. Stanza1:the poem treats the advantages as well as the disadvantages of the flower’s modest retirement-it is designed with beauty and well protected in solitude; whereas its beauty might be admired by few.

3.Stanza2: it suggests that the honey suckle bears a special

relationship with nature which has advised it to keep away from the ―vulgar eye‖; nature has designed it in

white—a color of simplicity and purity,and , it has sent the soft waters flowing g ntly by. However , in spite of all the nature’skindness, the flower cannot escape its doom. The best time of its life is fading, for death is waiting.

第二题；乌鸦

After he sees the bird, its response—or its imagined one一“nevermore”–keeps breaking upon the young man’s psychic wound ruthlessly and ceaselessly as do the waves on the sea shore until his depression reaches its breaking point: And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o’ er him streaming throve his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out chat shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted-nevermore! The young man, a neurotic on the brink of a mental collapse, （精神几近崩溃）outpours his sorrow in his semi-sleep（半梦半醒之间）on the appearance of the bird. Poetic imagination externalizes itself（诗歌的想象力表现在…）in the phantom of a bird 幻象中的小鸟）and

intermingles with it to enhance the effect of tbetragedy of the bereavement（失去挚爱的悲剧）It is good to note that Poe’s poems are heavily tinted in a dreamy, hallucinatory color. （Poe的诗歌中具有一种浓烈的梦境和幻觉的色彩）“The Raven”is a good example as the narrator is in a state of semi-stupor. （神志几近不清的状态）In addition, Poe insists on an even metrical flow in versification.（主张运用规则的韵律创作）“The Raven”is a marvel of regularity: W. L.Werner records that, of its 719 complete feet, （全诗有719个音步），705 are perfect trochees, （其中705个是完全的抑扬格）ten doubtful trochees, （十个勉强可算是抑扬格）and only four clearly dactyls.（只有四个是强弱格）Poe rarely allows himself twenty-five percent of irregular feet as is found in “Israfel”. （Poe几乎不会让诗中出现四分之一以上的不规则音步，就像在诗歌Israfel里一样）For the sake of regularity in rhythm, Poe disapproves of the use of archaisms, contractions, inversions, and similar devices. （Poe反对使用古体、缩写、倒置等技法）“The Raven”is thus a perfect illustration of his theory on poetry.

第三题。From nature

As adults we often fail to truly appreciate nature. However, the innocent, curious .and open-minded mind of children