A land of slaves shall ne’er be mine--- Dash down you cup of Samian wine!\(1)Identify the poem and its author. (P203)
(2)Explain \implication. Answer:
(1)The poet is Byron. The poem is taken from \(P203)
(2)Swan is famous for its faith to its lover, one of them die, the other will refuse to eat and drink, it will cry till death.
Here the author used a simile to show his strong desire to fight with the invaders till death, and appeal to the suppressed Greek people to struggle for their freedom and liberation.
7. \They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind, And the angle told Tom, if he’d be a good bye, He’d have God for his father, and never want joy.\
(1)Identify the poem and its poet;(2)What does the poem implies? Answer:
(1) The poem is take from \Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Innocence)\which was written by William Blake.(p171) (2) This is a lovely poem presenting a happy and innocent world, though the wretched child are exploited and orphaned,they had nice dream for life and the world, which implies religion make people obedient to exploitation, and from religion, they can get consolation and an
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8. \Oh! Lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee: tameless, and swift and proud.\
(1)Explain \
(2)Can you comprehend the deep emotion contained in the poem? What’s that? (3)The poet was called the \heart of all hearts\he trumpeted the radical prophecy of hope and rebirth. Please write out his classic words.
Answer:(1)The sentence call Shelley’s desire that he couldn’t best being fettered to/limited by the humdrum/too ordinary reality of everyday! (P208)(2)In the poem, the west wind has become the poet himself, he wants to be free, proud and controllable like the wild west wind,to destruct and construct with the strong power like the west wind. (P207~208) (3)\Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?\(P208)
10. \From the cradle to the grave
Drain your sweat---nay, drink your blood?\
(1)Who wrote the poem? What’s its name?(2) Explain \Interpret the passage.
Answer:
(1)The poem is \the honey-bees that don’t work ,
referring to the parasitic class in human society.(drones and bees are the devices of metaphor) (P210)(3)The poet called all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but point out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. It expressed the love for freedom and the hatred to tyranny of the author. (P207)
11. \Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!\
(1)What does the \the same time?(3)Identify the poet and the poem. nswer:
(1)\spirit\refers to west wind/autumn wind. (P212) (2)Because west wind buried the dead year and year and prepared for a new spring, the poet call it \ 5.
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Neoclassicism?(Neoclassicism=Augustans=enlightener)
Answer:(1)The Romantic Movement expressed negative attitude toward the existing social and political condition, the Romantics saw the corruption and injustice of the inhumanity of capitalism; (2)The Neo saw man as a social; while Rom saw him as an individual in the solitary state; (3)Neo stressed the common features of men; but the Rom stressed the special qualities of each individual’s mind; (4)Neo celebrated rationality, equality and science of the outside world; while Rom changed to the inner world of the human spirit, whose theory saw the individual as the center of all
experience; (5)Literature was heavily didactic and moralizing. There were fixed laws for each type of literature; Rom expressed his feeling, valued accuracy in portraying, they thought literature should be free from all rules.(6)The most important form in Neo was prose; while Rom was an age of poetry. (P160-161)
7. Jane Austen was the only important female author in the 18-19th century, how do you know about her? Answer:
Generally speaking, Austen was writer of the 18th century. (1)Her novels always dealt with the romantic entanglement of the heroines; (2)She believed in it that reason over passion, sense of responsibility, good manners,and clear judgment over romance; she honored the Augustan virtues of moderation, dignity disciplined emotion and common sense; (3)She contempt snobbery, stupidity, worldliness etc;(4)Her main concern was the relationship between men and women in love; (5)Her writing range was limited, all restricted to the provincial life of the 18th century England; (6)She presented the quiet, day-to-day country life of the middle -upper -class English. (7)Her characteristic theme was: maturity is got by the loss of illusions. (P223--226)
―You teach me now how cruel you’ve ---cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort---you deserve this…‖
Who is the speaker?What does it refer to ―you despise me, you break your own heart‖?
What was the meaning of the story from the social point of view? What is the main device of the story in description?
Answer:
The speaker was Heathcliff.(P270—271)It refers to Cathy married her husband (Linton) and deserted him and her own love.
From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man –Heathcliff abused, betrayed and distorted by his social betters/by the people with higher social position, because he is a poor nobody. (P266) Flashback. (P267)
―In pursuance of this determination, little Oliver, to his excessive astonishment, was released from bondage, and ordered to put himself into a clean shirt. He had hardly achieved this very unusual gymnastic performance when Mr. Bumble brought him, with his own hands, a basin of gruel and the holiday allowance of two ounces and a quarter of bread. A very tremendous sight, Oliver begins to cry very piteously. Thinking, not unnaturally, that the board must have decided to kill him for some useful purpose, or they never would have begun to fatten him up in this way.‖
Identify the title and the writer. Why Oliver was released from the bondage? Why had he been punished? Interpret ―A very tremendous sight‖. Answer:
1、This is an excerpt from ―Oliver Twist‖ by Charles Dickens. (P249)
Because he would be sold to a notorious chimney-sweeper (at 3 pound ten) and became his apprentice. (P243)
2、Oliver was punished for that ―impious and profane offence of asking for more gruel.‖ (P242)]
From the passage we can see the food is so little and poor in fact, but in the little