2021年1月23日发(作者：水纹)


Text1



…



I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and
self-
contain’d,



I stand and look at them long and long.


They do not sweat and whine about their condition,


They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,


They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,


Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of
owning things,


Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of
years ago,


Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.


So they show their relations to me and I accept them,


They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their
possession.


(Song of Myself)


Questions



1. Which of the following is the message Whitman is conveying to
average man and woman?



A. People should love the earth and the sun and the animals.



B. People should love themselves for what they are and be
themselves.


C. People should despise riches and give their wealth away to those
in need.


2. Does Whitman use traditional device like regular meter and
rhyme in this poem? What’s the form of the poem (sonnet or free verse
or visual poetry)?



3. Identify the literary devices you find in this poem. Name the
device, and note down one example.


参考答案



1. B
．



2. No. It is a free verse.



3. Any ONE of the devices and the illustrative examples



Repetition:



They do not sweat and whine about their condition,


They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,


They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God…



Parallelism and repetition:


Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with …



Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of
years ago,


Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.




Text 2

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone



Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,


Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone.


Silence the pianos and with muffled drum


Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.


Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead


Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,


Put the crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,


Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.


He was my North, my South, my East and West,


My working week and my Sunday rest,


My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;


I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.


The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;


Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;


Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.


For nothing now can ever come to any good.


Questions



1. These stanzas are taken from _________ by _________.


A. Ballad of Reading Gaol
…Oscar Wilde



B. Stop all the clocks, cut off the
telephone …
W.H. Auden


C. Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
… Emily Dickinson



2. The poem can be categorized as ________.


A. an elegy


B. a ballad



C. a sonnet


3 . What’s the focus of the third stanza?



A. The celebration of the importance of the loved one to the poet.



B. The difficulties in making decisions at the crossroads of life.



C. The destructive force of envy and despair.


4
.
The speaker expressed _______.


A. bitter disappointment at his
neighorhood’s polluted
environment


B. deep grief at the death of a friend /lover


C. strong desire to change the world


参考答案



1. B

2. A

3. A

4.B




Text 3

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
—

I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


Questions



1. The poem is set _______.


A. by a fork in the road in a yellow wood



B. on a train to a distant city


C. by a country road to a big city


2. The speaker begins the poem by __________.


A. describing himself walking down a garden path



B. describing himself standing by diverging roads


C. commenting on the meaninglessness of life


3. Wh
at is the speaker’s initial response to the divergence of the
two roads?



A. He sighs bitterly.B. He got excited.C. He was sorry.


4. The pattern of rhyme schemes used in the poem is _______.



A. abaabB. acabac. abbac


5. What might be the symbolic meaning of the two roads?


A. The conflicts between man and nature.


B. The difference in simple country life and rich city life.


C. The different paths we take in life.


6. Which of the following is true of the poem?



A. The poem has a slow rhythm and it suits the contemplative
mood of the speaker.



B. The poem has a fast rhythm and it creates a cheerful
atmosphere.


C. The poem has no regular rhythm to speak of.