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…
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)
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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
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2. No. It is a free verse.
3. Any ONE of
the devices and the illustrative examples
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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 d
uty 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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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C. commenting
on the meaninglessness of life
3. What 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.
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