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天津外国语学院1997年招收硕士学位研究生入学考试试题

I. Explain the following terms:(10 %)

a. Quatrain b. black humour c. Lambic d. protagonist

e. blank verse f. anti-hero g. carpe diem h.. objective correlative i . anthology j. interior monologue”

II . Give names of author or poet to each of the following: (10%)

a. The Miller’s Tale b. Red Rover

c. An Apology of Poetry d. The Dangling Man

e. Let me not to the marriage of true minds

f. Washington Square g. “To his coy mistress”

h. Moby-Dick i. The Rape of the Look

j. Winner takes Nothing

Ⅲ. Name one or two works (poem) by the following writers or poets: (10%)

a. Henry Fielding b. Joseph Heller c. Robert Burns d. Sherwood Anderson e. John Donne f. Nathaniel Hawthorne g. Thomas Carlyle h. Edgar Allen Poe i. Robert Browning j. John Steinbeck

IV . Identify the following poems and complete the requirements to each of them. (10%)

a. Comment on the levels of irony in the poem “War Is Kind”

War Is Kind

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.

Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky.

And the affrighted steed ran on alone,

Do not weep. War is kind

Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment,

Little souls who thirst for fig

These men were born to drill and die.

The unexplained glory flies above them,

Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom--

A field where at thousand corpses lie.

Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.

Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,

Raged at his breast, gulped and died,

Do not weep. War is kind.

Swift blazing flag of the regiment,

Eagle with crest of red and gold,

These men were born to drill and die,

Point for them the virtue of slaughter,

Make plain to them the excellence of killing,

And a field where a thusand corpses lie.

Mother whose heart hung humble as a button

On the bright splendid shroud of your son,

Do not weep.

War is kind.

b. Give celebrations of clear understanding of the poem “The Pulley”

The Pulley

When God at first made man,

Having a glass of blessings standing by,