北大英美文学专业部分试题

北大英美文学专业部分试题

1 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.

2 （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。

3（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.