厦门大学2003年英语语言(文学)专业课考研真题

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2015年硕士研究生招生考试有很多变化，具体可归纳为考试时间将提前一周、全国各省份分区划复试线、专业突出者允许破格复试三个变化。对于广大考研学习来说，提前进入考前冲刺模式。但不管招生政策如何变化，考研真题仍然是同学们考研复习的必备资料。以下是厦门大学2003年英语语言(文学)专业课考研真题试卷(回忆版)。
   
    厦门大学2003年英语语言(文学)专业课考研真题试卷(回忆版)
    　　Part Three Literature
    I. Name the authors of the following works orlines of poems: 10 points
    1. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
    2. The Heart of Darkness
    3. The Last of Mohicans
    4. The Sun Also Rises
    5. I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet ofthe Soul
    6. Much Madness is divinest Sense--
    7. I took the one less traveled by,/ And that hasmade all the
difference.
    8. The Trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind,/ If Winter comes, can Spring be far
behind?
    9. Do I dare/ Disturb the universe? / In a minute there is time for
decisions and revisions whicha minute will reverse.
    10. Alone, alone, all, all alone, /Alone on a wide, wide sea!
    II. Answer ONE of the two questions concerning American literature:7%
    1. Give a brief account of the central theme and the significance of
Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
    2. State briefly the difference between the “Lake Poets” (Wordsworth and
Coleridge) and themore socially-and historically-concerned romantic poets such
as Byron and Shelly. Prove yourpoints with specific evidence from their
poems.
    III. Describe and make a comment on TWO of the following characters from
Englishliterature (1---4) and ANOTHER TWO from American literature (5—8)
    1.Beowulf
    2.Guilliver
    3.Mrs Warren
    4.Mr Allworthy
    5.Natty Bumppo
    6.Daisy Buchanan
    7.Tom Sawyer
    8.Ma Joad (Grapes of Wrath)
    IV. Read the poem and answer the questions below :10 points
    The sonnet-ballad
    Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?
    They took my lover’s tallness off to war.
    Left me lamenting . Now I cannot guess.
    What I can use an empty heart-cup for*
    He won’t be coming back here any more
    Some day the war will end, but, oh, I knew
    When he went walking grandly out that door
    That my sweet love would have to be untrue.
    Would have to be untrue. Would have to court
    Coquettish death*, whose impudent and strange
    Possessive arms and beauty (of a sort)
    Can make a hard man hesitate---and change.
    And he will be the one to stammer, “Yes.”
    Oh, mother, mother, where is happiness?
    Note:
    1. An empty heart-cup: Her heart, like a cup , has been emptied.
    2. Coquettish death: a personification of death as a coquette, a vamp, a
seductress.
    Questions:
    1. What is the situation in the poem?
    2. Discuss the metaphor used in the poem.
    3. What kind of feeling is expressed through the poem?