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ANSWER TO 1

1. T. S Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

2. one way is to interpret “you and me” as the reader or the unknown companion of Prufrock and the speaker Prufrock; another way is to interpret You as the other self of Prufrock, and he is split in to two selves which are talking to each other.

ANSWER TO 2 1.“Hamlet”

2.Shakespeare 3.Hamlet

4.“To be or not to be” means to live or end one’s life by self-destruction. Hamlet has already spoken of suicide as a means of escape, and he dwells on it in a later part of this very speech, giving however a different reason for refraining. The notion that in the words “or not to be ” he is

speculating on the possibility of “something after death”---whether there is a future life –cannot be entertained for a moment. The whole drift of the speech shows his belief in a future life.

Practically the whole speech has become proverbial as an outpouring of utter worldly weariness.

ANSWER TO 3 1. A

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ANSWER TO 4

1. Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale 2. Allin-a-Dale, a young hunter 3. ballad

ANSWER TO 5:

1. Francis Bacon 2. Of Studies

ANSWER TO 6:

1.B 2. No 3. John Donne

ANSWER TO 7:

1. A 2. B

3. “Paradise Lost”

4. John Milton

5. In this passage, God is depicted as a despot “Who now triumph, and in the excess of joy/sole reigning holds the Tyranny of Heaven;” while in contrast Satan is presented as the real hero, a rebel with “the unconquerable will, And courage never to submit or yield.” The epic turns out to be an eloquent expression of the revolutionary spirit of the English bourgeois revolution, a call to resist tyranny and to continue the fight for freedom. Herein lies the great significance of the passage and the work as well.

6. Milton is difficult to read, because of his involved style with frequent inversions and very complicated sentence structure. His sentences are often long. Yet, to express his sublimity of thought, he wrote in a style that is unsurpassed in its sonority, eloquence, majesty and grandeur

—the “Miltonic” style. He is a great master of the blank verse. His lines are rich in the variations of rhythm and pause.

ANSWER TO 8:

1. “The Pilgrim’s Progress”

2. John Bunyan

3. Christian and his companion Faithful pass through the town of Vanity at the season of the local fair. “Vanity” means “emptiness” or “worthlessness,” and hence the fair is an allegory of worldliness and the corruption of the religious life through the attractions of the world. From earliest times numerous fairs were held for stated periods throughout Britain; to them the most important merchants from all over Europe brought their wares. The serious business of buying and selling was accompanied by all sorts of diversions: eating, drinking, and other fleshly pleasures, as well as spectacles of strange animals, acrobats, and other wonders.

This selection gives the bitterest satire, which is invariably directed at the ruling class. In the descriptions of the Vanity Fair, Bunyan not only gives us a symbolic picture of London at the time of the Restoration but of all bourgeois society.

ANSWER TO 9:

1. Swift 2. Lilliput

3. Gulliver’s Travels 4. Lemuel Gulliver

5. The style is characterized by directness, simplicity and vividness. The most grotesque creations are combined with the bitterest satire.

ANSWER TO 10:

1. “A Modest Proposal”

2. Jonathan Swift

3. A Modest Proposal is an example of Swift’s favorite satiric devices used with superb effect.

Irony (from the deceptive adjective “modest” in the title to the very last sentence) pervades the piece. A rigorous logic deduces ghastly arguments from a shocking premise so quietly assumed that the reader assents before he is aware of what his assent implies. Parody, at which Swift is adept, allows him to glance sardonically at, by then , the familiar figure of the benevolent humanitarian (forerunner of the modern sociologist, social worker, economic planner) concerned to correct a social evil by means of a theoretically conceived plan. The proposer, as naïve as he is apparently logical and kindly, ignores and therefore emphasizes for the reader the enormity of his plan. The whole piece is an elaboration of a rather trite metaphor: “The English are devouring the Irish.” But there is nothing trite about the pamphlet, which expresses in Swift’s most controlled style his pity for the oppressed, ignorant, populous, and hungry Catholic peasants of Ireland, and his anger at the rapacious English absentee landlords, who were bleeding the country white with the silent approbation of Parliament, ministers, and the Crown.

ANSWER TO 11:

1. The Spectator

2. Sir Roger at the Church 3. a

4. Sir Roger represents the country gentry. He is a country gentleman of old fashioned manners.

He stands for the old-fashioned virtues of simplicity, honesty, and piety. His foibles, which are describes with a gentle humor, make a setting for his virtues, which point an example to the world of fashion. He is created as a character fit in the novel.

5. The periodical literature in “The Spectator” maintained its tone of courtesy and good breeding. Such prose is easy to understand yet capable of variety and beauty. Just as Dr.

Johnson described, “His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not graveling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or printed sentences.”

ANSWER TO 12

1. From this passage we can know that the lawyer just like the other fellows on the couch is also a coward, who is also a selfish person but pretend to be very considerate of others, especially women, which totally reveals his hypocrisy and elaboration

2. The language is characterized by clarity and suppleness. His style is easy, unlabored and familiar, but very vivid and vigorous. His sentences are always distinguished, logic and rhythm, full of mild satire and humor.

ANSWER TO 13

1. 1. Prologue, Chaucer 2. 2. satirize, falls short ANSWER TO 14

1. holy love, secular love

2. trepidation of the spheres, holy love, gold to airy thinness beat, and a pair of two stiff twin compasses.

3. . metaphysical conceit, extended metaphor.

ANSWER TO 15:

1. serious, time, playful, absurd 2. metaphors

ANSWER TO 16

1. Cavalier poets, enjoy

2. youth, a full-life span of a man ANSWER TO 17:

1. sonnet 2. friendship ANSWER TO 18:

1. the supposed messenger, Samson, Milton, The book of Judges, The Old Testament ANSWER TO 19:

1. “London”

2. Songs of Innocence 3. William Blake

4. The poem provides a comprehensive picture of the many miseries, physical and spiritual, in London.

ANSWER TO 20:

1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 2. Britain

ANSWER TO 21:

1. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray 2. quatrains, iambic

3. dusk, darkness

4. sentimentalism, graveyard school ANSWER TO 22

1. The Songs of Experience, William Blake

2. This poem contains six quatrains in rhyming couplets, an d it is also Blake’s most potent musings on the nature of God or whatever creative force or deity by the using of the symbol of Tiger, in the poem, that not only symbolizes the vitality, power, but mystery and awesomeness as well.

ANSWER TO 23:

1. A Red, Red Rose, Robert Burns 2.determination

ANSWER TO 24