课程名称︰浪漫时期英国文学
课程性质︰外文系群组必修／Ｂ英美文学九选五
课程教师︰吴雅凤
开课学院：文学院
开课系所︰外国语文学系
考试日期（年月日）︰2015.11.11
考试时限（分钟）：150分钟（9:30-12:00）
试题 :
[试题中的斜体字以虚底线标示；考卷标题和日期就是这样写的XD]
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Mid-term Exam: 19th-Century British Literature
Instructor: Dr. Ya-feng Wu, DFLL, NTU, (Nov. 10, 2015)
I. Please briefly explain three of the following terms with concrete examples
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if possible (15%)
1. The master theme of Romanticism
2. Fragment poem
3. Infernal printing
4. the Aeolian harp
5. the Bard
II. Choose two of the following excerpts and explain their significance in
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Romanticism. (30%)
1. "Let the Priests of the Raven of dawn no longer, in deadly black, with
hoarse note curse the sons of joy! Nor his accepted brethren—whom,
tyrant, he calls free—lay the bound or build the roof! Nor pale
Religion's lechery call that Virginity that wishes but act not!"
("The song of liberty" from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell )
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2. "In moody sadness, on the giddy brink,
I see him more with envy than with fear;
He has no nice felicities that shrink
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From giant horrors; wildly wandering here,
He seems (uncursed with reason) not to know
The depth or the duration of his woe."
("On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea,
Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic")
3. "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 dances with the daffodils."
("I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud")
III. Choose one out of each set of questions and answer with concrete examples.
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1A. Explain the "myth of nature" and its connection with Romantic poetics
as governing ideas in Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey."
1B. Formulate Coleridge's idea of the Romantic poet from his "Kubla Khan,"
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," etc.
1C. Explain how it is possible that Heman's Casabianca can be read as
celebration of patriotism in her own time and as critique of the same
ideology in the 20th and 21th centuries.
2A. Explain how we can see Mary Wollstonecraft's refutation with Milton a
showcase of her Enlightenment project for A Vindication of the Rights
of Woman. ﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉﹉
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2B. Explain Blake's "The Book of Thel" as a failed quest.
2C. Compare Burns' "To a Mouse" with Barbauld's "The Mouse's Petition."