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English Literature I. Answer the following questions: (32 points)1. Could you explain the English ballad? (12)2. Could you explain sonnet? (12)3. What does “green” suggest? (2)4. What does long vowels suggest? (2)5. Could you point out the images and theme in the following poem? (4)Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly.Hold fast to dreamsFor when dreams goLife is a barren fieldFrozen with snow.II. Read the poems carefully and then answer the questions based on the poems: (44 points) 1The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:Little we see in Nature that is ours;We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;For this, for everything, we are out of tune:It moves us not.-Great God? Id rather beA Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.1. It is clear that the poeta. is thinking of committing suicide b. is irreligious c. loves modern musicd. appreciates the beauty of nature e. is an Arab2. The literary form of this poem is a(n)a. ode b. ballad c. limerick d. epic e. sonnet3. The figure of speech employed in line 5 is a(n)a. metaphor b. hyperbole c. onomatopoeia d. alliteration e. personification4. Proteus and Triton are characters froma. the Bible b. Greek mythology c. a 17th century novel d. a Shakespearean play e. an opera5. If the poet were alive today, he would probably be most sympathetic toa. the industrial-military complex b. the law abiding Sunday churchgoerc. the teenager who wants to “do his own thing” d. the “My country, right or wrong” advocatee. the cause of womens rights6. The poet in saying: “We have given our hearts away”(line 4) means that people are generallya. insincere and commercial b. not logical in their romantic relationsc. heartless and cruel to their fellowmen d. using up their physical strength needlesslye. easily taken in by manipulators7. We have a literary device known as “oxymoron” ina. line 4 (“a sordid boon”) b. line 7 (“sleeping flowers”) c. line 9 (“Great God”)d. line 10 (“suckled in a creed outworn”) e. line 13 (“rising from the sea”)8. In saying “Id rather be a Pagan suckled in a creed outworn”-the poet meansa. he would like to be an infant in his mothers arms againb. he believes that we may learn much from the experience of others, in order to lead better livesc. he finds life uselessd. he would prefer to live some time in the paste. he is sick and tired of being with people 2Tiger! Tiger! Burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand dare seize the fire?And what shoulder, and what art,Could twist the sinews of thy heart?And when thy heart began to beat,What dread hand? and what dread feet?What the hammer? what the chain?In what furnace was thy brain?What the anvil? what dread graspDare its deadly terrors clasp?When the stars threw down their spears,And waterd heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?Tiger! Tiger! burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eye,Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?1. If the tiger is the poets symbol for the powerful forces of the soul, then the metaphor “forests of the night” may be said to representa. Gods mysteries. b. peace and quiet. c. mans physical weaknesses.d. mans preference for the material over the spiritual. e. Ignorance and superstition.2. In what lines does the poet first suggest that some unknown, supernatural force was responsible for the tigers creation?a. lines 3, 4. b. lines 7, 8. c. lines 13, 14. d. Lines 18, 19. e. Lines 23, 24.3. The predominant mood of the first four stanzas is one of awe and admiration; with the fifth stanza, the mood changes to one ofa. tenderness b. religious faith c. simple amazement d. total resignation e. Vengeance4. Except for one word, stanzas 1 and 6 are identical. The one difference may be said to show the poetsa. belief in Gods omnipotence b. belief in mans omnipotencec. preference for animals over people d. Desire to return to the world of naturee. effort to avoid total repetition5. The imagery in lines 17 and 18 may be said to suggesta. a time of peace that all men long for b. another cosmic disaster such as the Floodc. that God has tried to quench the tigers fearful fire d. That God prefers the Lamb to the tigere. that one little raindrop does not mean a shower6. The “Lamb” in line 20 is the poets symbol of a. the natural enemy of the tiger b. Christ c. a daylight version of the nocturnal tigerd. innocence e. the potential strength of the weak7. The tigers symmetry is “fearful” because hea. is a violent animal b. is so perfectly formed c. is perfectly balanced between good and evild. is afraid of himself e. has been created by a divine, supernatural force8. From this poem, the reader may infer that the poeta. worships brute force b. believes that God is an ambiguous beingc. is torn between force and intellect d. Believes that man is the victim of repression and ignorance e. is identifying himself with the tiger 3The sea is calm tonight,The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits; - on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England standGlimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!Only, from the long line of sprayWhere the sea meets the moon-blanched land,Listen! you hear the grating roarOf pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,At their return, up the high strand,Begin, and cease, and then again begin,With tremulous cadence slow, and bringThe eternal note of sadness in,Sophocles long agoHeard it on the Aegaean, and it brought Into his mind, the turbid ebb and flowOf human misery; weFind also in the sound a thought,Hearing it by this distant northern sea.The Sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full, and round earths shoreLay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.But now I only hearIts melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,Retreating, to the breathOf the night-wind, down the vast edges drearAnd naked shingles of the worldAh, love, let us be trueTo one another! for the world, which seemsTo lie before us like a land of dreams,So various, so beautiful, so newHath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;And we are here as on a darkling plainSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where ignorant armies clash by night.1. Which expression does not contribute substantially to the imagery of the poem?a. “moon-blanched land”(line 8) b. “and then again begin” (line 12) c. “turbid ebb and flow”(line 17) d. “folds of a bright girdle furled” (line 23)e. “ignorant armies clash by night” (line 37)2. The “grating roar” (line 9) is an example of a. metaphor b. simile c. personification d. onomatopoeia e. hyperbole3. The mood of the poem is one of a. indifference b. joviality c. pessimism d. exuberance e. wonderment4. Sophocles was a(n)a. Roman historian b. English painter c. Russian monarchd. Greek dramatist e. Turkish fisherman5. The conclusion of the poem (as differentiated from the development of the poem) begins witha. line 21 b. line 24 c. line 29 d. Line 35 e. l