北大英美文学专业部分试题
A 诗歌分析 Personal Helicon (by Seamus Heaney)
- As a child, they could not keep me from wells
- And old pumps with buckets and windlasses.
- I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells
- Of waterweed, fungus and dank moss.
- One, in a brickyard, with a rotted board top.
- I savoured the rich crash when a bucket
- Plummeted down at the end of a rope.
- So deep you saw no reflection in it.
- A shallow one under a dry stone ditch
- Fructified like any aquarium.
- When you dragged out long roots from the soft mulch
- A white face hovered over the bottom.
- Others had echoes, gave back your own call
- With a clean new music in it. And one
- Was scaresome, for there, out of ferns and tall
- Foxgloves, a rat slapped across my reflection.
- Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime,
- To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring
- Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme
- To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
B（从二题中选一道回答）
- （1）19世纪英国小说家的作品中多少都有些realism的因素，用三个不同小说家的不同作品，说明这些作品中的现实主义因素那些是值得我们借鉴的，那些不太具有借鉴价值。
- （2）用三个不同时期的作家的作品说明christianity对英国文学的影响。
C（从二题中选一道回答）
- （1）在美国文学批评史上对American Dream 的评论一直是个热点。一种观点认为它的material aspect导致了corruption of social vision,一种观点认为it is an illusion which conceal class reality and inequality.用不同（三个？忘了）的评论家的观点说明（评论？）这两种观点。
- （2）诗歌分析 To a Snail (by Marianne Moore)
- If “compression is the first grace of style”,
- you have it. Contractility is a virtue
- as modesty is a virtue.
- It is not the acquisition of any one thing
- that is able to adorn,
- or the incidental quality that occurs
- as a concomitant of something well said,
- that we value in style,
- but the principle that is hid:
- in the absence of feet, “a method of conclusions”;
- “a knowledge of principles”,
- in the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn.
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