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信阳师范学院美国文学作品选读
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume.
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
A. Identify the author and the work.
B. What are the two principal beliefs that the poet set forth in this poem?
“I like to see it lap the Miles— And lick the Valleys up— And stop to feed itself at Tanks— And then-prodigiosu step” A. Please give the name of the author. B. What idea does this poem express?
But it seemed that both his audacity and his respect were lost on Miss Daisy Miller. ‘I guess mother wouldn’t go—for you,’ she smiled. ‘And she ain’t much bent on going, anyway. She don’t like to ride round in the afternoon.’ After which she familiarly proceeded: ‘But did you really mean what you said just now—that you’d like to go up there?’ Most earnestly I meant it, Winterbourne declared. A. Identify the author and the work. B. Where are they going to visit？
“ ‘Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? So you think I am an automoton?—a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?—You think wrong!—I have as much as you and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh: — it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal —as we are!’” A. Identify the author and the work. B. Summarize the speaker’s meaning.
“The curfew tolls the knell o fparting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.” A. Scan the first line of the stanza. B. Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.
Had I as many souls as there be stars. I’d give them all for Mephistophilis! By him I’ll be great emperor of the world, And make a bridge through the moving air To pass the ocean with a band of men; I’ll join the hills that bing the Africa shore And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown; The Emperor shall not live by my leave, Nor any potentate of Germany. Now that I have obtained what I desire I’ll live in speculation of this art. Till Mephistophilis return again.” A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken. B. Based on the passage, write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.
“It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.” A. Identify the author and the work. B. What does the rocking-chair symbolize？
“He neither spoke, nor loosed his hold some five minutes, during which period he bestowed more kisses than ever he gave in his life before, I dare say; but then my mistress had kissed him first, and I plainly saw that he could hardly bear, for downright agony, to look into her face! The same conviction had stricken him as me, from the instant he beheld her, that there was no prospect of ultimate recovery there—she was fated, sure to die.” A. Identify the author and the work. B. What does the rocking-chair symbolize?
‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’ ‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. ’” Questions: A. Who’s the author of the quoted part, and what’s the title of the work? B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question? C. Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his son’s question?
“My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’ d from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty- seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death” Questions: A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem? B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line? C. What does the poet try to say in the above quoted lines?
1. “When the stars threw down their spears, And water’ d heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?” Questions: A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza? B. Whom does the “he” refer to? C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?
“Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock or hill; Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! The very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!” ( From Wordsworth’s sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge ) Questions: A. What does this sonnet describe? B. What does the phrase “mighty heart” refer to? C.What is the form of the poem?
Shall I compare thee to a summer.s day? Thou are more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. Questions: A. Who is the author? B. What is the theme of the poem? C. What kind of poem is it?
So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn.t know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I.ll go and write the letter-- and then see if I can pray. Why, it was astomishing, the way I felt as light as a feather, right off, and my troubels all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote... Questions: A. Who does I refer to in the passage? B. Who am I going to write to? C. What kind of image is "I"?
When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the open bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss of misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers. Questions: A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken. B. What had happened in the story before this church scene? C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down?
“I like to see it lap the Miles— And lick the Valleys up— And stop to feed itself at Tanks— And then-prodigiosu step” A. Please give the name of the author. B. What idea does this poem express?
But it seemed that both his audacity and his respect were lost on Miss Daisy Miller. ‘I guess mother wouldn’t go—for you,’ she smiled. ‘And she ain’t much bent on going, anyway. She don’t like to ride round in the afternoon.’ After which she familiarly proceeded: ‘But did you really mean what you said just now—that you’d like to go up there?’ Most earnestly I meant it, Winterbourne declared. A. Identify the author and the work. B. Where are they going to visit？
“ ‘Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? So you think I am an automoton?—a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?—You think wrong!—I have as much as you and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh: — it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal —as we are!’” A. Identify the author and the work. B. Summarize the speaker’s meaning.
“The curfew tolls the knell o fparting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.” A. Scan the first line of the stanza. B. Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.
Had I as many souls as there be stars. I’d give them all for Mephistophilis! By him I’ll be great emperor of the world, And make a bridge through the moving air To pass the ocean with a band of men; I’ll join the hills that bing the Africa shore And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown; The Emperor shall not live by my leave, Nor any potentate of Germany. Now that I have obtained what I desire I’ll live in speculation of this art. Till Mephistophilis return again.” A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken. B. Based on the passage, write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.
“It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.” A. Identify the author and the work. B. What does the rocking-chair symbolize？
“He neither spoke, nor loosed his hold some five minutes, during which period he bestowed more kisses than ever he gave in his life before, I dare say; but then my mistress had kissed him first, and I plainly saw that he could hardly bear, for downright agony, to look into her face! The same conviction had stricken him as me, from the instant he beheld her, that there was no prospect of ultimate recovery there—she was fated, sure to die.” A. Identify the author and the work. B. What does the rocking-chair symbolize?
‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’ ‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. ’” Questions: A. Who’s the author of the quoted part, and what’s the title of the work? B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question? C. Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his son’s question?
“My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’ d from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty- seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death” Questions: A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem? B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line? C. What does the poet try to say in the above quoted lines?
1. “When the stars threw down their spears, And water’ d heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?” Questions: A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza? B. Whom does the “he” refer to? C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?
“Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock or hill; Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! The very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!” ( From Wordsworth’s sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge ) Questions: A. What does this sonnet describe? B. What does the phrase “mighty heart” refer to? C.What is the form of the poem?
Shall I compare thee to a summer.s day? Thou are more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. Questions: A. Who is the author? B. What is the theme of the poem? C. What kind of poem is it?
So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn.t know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I.ll go and write the letter-- and then see if I can pray. Why, it was astomishing, the way I felt as light as a feather, right off, and my troubels all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote... Questions: A. Who does I refer to in the passage? B. Who am I going to write to? C. What kind of image is "I"?
When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the open bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss of misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers. Questions: A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken. B. What had happened in the story before this church scene? C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down?