Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them all, But all, except their sun, is set.\
(1)Identify the poem and its author; (2)What does it mean \set.\Answer:
(1)The poet is Byron. The poem is taken from \(P199) (2)The sentence means: The sun is still on the rise, but the rest things all set. (3)The passage implied: The author lamented over the fallen Greece: In the past, Greece nurtured/ cultivated great poets and heroes,who enjoyed freedom and civilization, but now Greece had been enslaved,the past honorable history couldn’t be found again. (P199)
3. \ Trace your grave and build your tomb And weave your winding-sheet---till fair England be your Sepulcher\
(1)Explain \Answer:
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(1)Sepulcher means grave. (P210~211)
(2)The poem ironically addressed to the workers who submit to capitalist exploitation. It warned them: If they gave up the struggle, they would be digging graves for themselves wish their own hands. (P211)
4. \ Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:\
(1)Who is the poet? The name? (2)Explain the sentence. (3)What was the theme of the poem? Answer:
(1)This is the \on a Grecian Um\which was written by the poet---John Keats. (P219) (2)The sentence means: though time has passed, the urn , the works of the art still remains, and it tells a pastoral/lyrical tale to us, and the description of the urn is much more beautiful than the words of any human. (P218)(3)The theme is: Human life is transient, but the art is immortal. (P218)
5. \ Where nothing, save the waves and I,
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May her our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne’er be mine--- Dash down you cup of Samian wine!\(1)Identify the poem and its author. (P203)
(2)Explain \like, let me sing and die\(P199) Interpret the passage and spot its implication. Answer:
(1)The poet is Byron. The poem is taken from \(P203)
(2)Swan is famous for its faith to its lover, one of them die, the other will refuse to eat and drink, it will cry till death.
Here the author used a simile to show his strong desire to fight with the invaders till death, and appeal to the suppressed Greek people to struggle for their freedom and liberation.
6. \ In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills,
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And dance with the daffodils.\
(1) What is the \of the solitude\Interpret the passage.(3) Why did the poet write the poem, what did he want to express? Answer:
(1)The Daffodils the poem saw. (P180) (2)It is a bliss/happiness to recollect the beauty of nature in his mind when he is solitude/lonely.
(3)The poem depicts/deals with the flowers that he came across along waterside, by which he expresses the quiet, sympathy, loving feeling to nature just like his words \
7. \They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind, And the angle told Tom, if he’d be a good bye, He’d have God for his father, and never want joy.\
(1)Identify the poem and its poet;(2)What does the poem implies? Answer:
(1) The poem is take from \was written by William Blake.(p171) (2) This is a lovely poem presenting a happy and innocent world, though the wretched child are exploited and orphaned,
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they had nice dream for life and the world, which implies religion make people obedient to exploitation, and from religion, they can get consolation and an \happiness\
8. \Oh! Lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee: tameless, and swift and proud.\
(1)Explain \
(2)Can you comprehend the deep emotion contained in the poem? What’s that? (3)The poet was called the \hope and rebirth. Please write out his classic words.
Answer:(1)The sentence call Shelley’s desire that he couldn’t best being fettered to/limited by the humdrum/too ordinary reality of everyday! (P208)(2)In the poem, the west wind has become the poet himself, he wants to be free, proud and controllable like the wild west wind,to destruct and construct with the strong power like the west wind. (P207~208) (3)\
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