[考研类试卷]2008年武汉大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷及答案与解析.doc
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1、2008年武汉大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷及答案与解析 一、名词解释 1 Total Depravity 2 “Hemingway Heroes“ 3 Oversoul 4 Archetypal Criticism 二、分析题 5 Based on “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud“ by Wordsworth and “Ode on a Grecian Urn“ by John Keats, discuss the main features of the Romantic poetry. (10 points) 6 Names the authors of t
2、he following poems and then make a comparative analysis of them. “AMORETTI, SONNET 75“ One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I write it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay, A
3、mortal thing so to immortalize, For I myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise. Not so, (quod I) let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse, your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where whenas dea
4、th shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew. “Sonnet 18“ Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summers lease hath all too short a date: Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
5、 And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance, or natures changing course, untrimmd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade, When in eternal lines to time th
6、ou growst. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 7 Interpret American Dream by citing several relevant American writers and their works. 2008年武汉大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷答案与解析 一、名词解释 1 【正确答案】 Total depravity, also called total inability and total corrupti
7、on is a theological doctrine that derives from the Augustinian concept of original sin. It is the teaching that, as a consequence of the Fall of Man, every person born into the world is enslaved to the service of sin and, apart from the efficacious or prevenient grace of God, is utterly unable to ch
8、oose to follow God or choose to accept salvation as it is freely offered. 2 【正确答案】 Ernest Hemingways heroes many have different names but they are fundamentally the same person. These characters are similar to each other. They are noble but tragic heroes fighting with the overwhelming force. Though
9、they are fully aware of the fact that they will be defeated at last, they still decides to act like a hero. 3 【正确答案】 Oversoul, is a concept by Ralph Waldo Emerson introduced in his 1841 essay by the same name, meaning “over abiding presence“. It refers to an impersonal force that is eternal, moral,
10、harmonious, and beneficent in tendency. Emerson believed that there should be an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal “oversoul“, since the over-soul is an all-pervading power from which all things come from and of which all is a part. One of the tendencies of the “ov
11、er-soul“ is to express itself in form, hence the world of nature as an emanation of the world of spirit. 4 【正确答案】 Archetypal literary criticism is a type of critical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes (from the Greek arche, or beginning, and typos, or imprint
12、) in the narrative, symbols, images, and character types in a literary work. As a form of literary criticism, it dates back to 1934 when Maud Bodkin published Archetypal Patterns in Poetry. 二、分析题 5 【正确答案】 Romantic poetry referred to the natural aspects of the world, focusing on the feelings of sadne
13、ss and great happiness. Nature was a focus of many famous poets. It was often presented as itself a work of art, constructed by a divine imagination, in emblematic language. As is suggested in the poems, Wordsworth derives from the daffodils in full blossom a feeling of philosophical delight and Joh
14、n Keats expresses his contemplation on beauty over the sight of an ancient Urn. And romantic nature poetry is therefore essentially poetry of meditation and the authors displayed what the common reader still expects of poetry: soaring imagination, emotional intensity, freshness of individual experie
15、nce, plus a deep sense of myth and mystery in natural events. 【试题解析】 本题考查考生对浪漫主义诗歌的认识。浪漫主义作家注重感情(feelings)与自然 (Nature)的表达,浪漫主义在反映客观现实上侧重从主观内心世界出发,抒发对理想世界的热烈追求,常用热情奔放的语言、瑰丽的想象和夸张的手法来塑造形象。 6 【正确答案】 Amoretti, Sonnet 75 is written by Edmund Spenser and Sonnet 18 is written by Shakespeare. Though rhymed
16、in different styles, these two poems are both the celebration of the same theme that verses survive time and love is immortal. Following an abab-bcbc-cbcb-dd rhyme scheme, Sonnet 75 is particularly telling about a day of the two lovers at the beach, reporting a conversation between the poet and his
17、beloved. With his sonnet Spenser struggles with a problem of love, the problem of limited existence, just as he struggles with the sand and ocean thus claiming to bestow immortality upon his beloved. Lines 3 and 4 tell how he rewrote the name and the sea repeated the act of erasure. Here, the time i
18、s given as an erasing tide, which is a simile. These first four lines in a way indicate the uselessness of writing. The water washes away the writing, acts as a predator hunting on the lovers pains, a personification of death. However, water may also be a life giver. The ebb and flow of the ocean is
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