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1、Part The 17th centuryThe Period of Revolution and RestorationJohn Donne1 What are the characteristics and representatives of the English literature of the revolution period, the metaphysical period and restoration period? A. The revolution period, Puritans believed in simplicity of life and disappro
2、ved of the sonnets and the love poetry, and they influence in general tended to suppressed literary art.Representatives:John Milton,John BunyanB.The metaphysical (玄学派)period, the style became spiritual gloom.Representatives:Donne and Herbert;John MiltonCThe restoration period, the literary was often
3、 witty and clever, but on the whole immoral and cynical. Representatives:John Dryden2 In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning告别:莫忧伤”, why does the speaker forbid mourning when his going to pass away and leave his lover? Why and what are the two conceits (比喻)that he uses to describe their perfect love
4、?A.Although they may leave each other, yet they love is firm and forever, and soul lovers cannot be separated by distance and death. Besides,death is natural just like earthquake.B. First conceit(like gold to airy thinness beat), their souls are like gold, it can expand and their love still exit. Se
5、cond conceit(as stiff tein com, they are like compasses are two), one moving and anther stay and wait for the companion. 3 In “Death be not proud”(死神莫骄妄), what will happen to us when we die?why does the speaker say that “death should not be proud”? When will death die?A. It will be rest and sleep fl
6、ow with much pleasure when we die,and our souls will be released.B.Because it is a slave of fate, chance, kings and desperate man and death is together with poison,war,sickness and opium or charms. And these things can make us sleep like the death, and the effect is better than death. Death for peop
7、le is a souls delivery, and after death people will feel free and pleased. Although people die, yet they wake eternally, and their souls are exiting forever. C.When peoples short sleep past, people wake eternally, and death no longer exist and death will die.John Milton 1 In what way is John Milton
8、a staunch(坚定的)revolution fighter and a great poet?A.When he was in Italy, he heard the trouble sprung up in England, and he gave up his plan for travelling and went back to England. After he return to England, he opposed the monarchic party and gave all his energy to the writing of pamphlets小册子 dedi
9、cated to the peoples liberties. B.After finishing the university course,he thought he was born to be a for five years he lived at home in his fathers country house at Horton about 20 miles from London,writing poetry and studying hard,in order better to fit himself for his worked for 7years upon Para
10、dise he also wrote Paradise Regained and Samson three works made him a great poet. 2What is the theme of Paradise Lost ?What is the basic idea of Paradise Lost?Theme:?The basic idea:the exposure of reactionary forces of his time and passionate appeal for freedom.3 In Paradise Lost, why was Satan pun
11、ished by God driven out of heaven and at last into hell? What did he want to do for revenge? And what was his reason? What is the allegorical meaning of the poem?A. Because Satan led the mutinous(反叛的) angels to rise against God himself but in the battle with the hosts of angels that remained true to
12、 God, they were finally defeated.B. Satan wanted to ruin Gods precious creation (man).C. So he wanted to tear Adam and Eve away from the influence of God and to make them instrumental in his struggle against Gods authority.D. God represents authority and tyranny on earth,he has strong rights to cont
13、rol anything .Satan represents the power of revolting against authority and desire for freedom.3 In the Sonnet On His Blindness, what is the double meaning of “talent”? What is “mine” question? And what is the answer given by patience? What is the theme of the Sonnet?A. The “talent” means :ability a
14、nd a kind of currency unitB. Question is that God does not give us light, and why I will bear it?(Doth God exact day-labor,light denied?)C. Patience answers that God does not need gift, and go and climb without rest or stand and wait is also a service.(God doth not need either mans work or his own g
15、ifts;who best bear his mild yoke,they serve him best)D. Theme:If you have talents,you should make full use of it. and your pain will be diminished and you will be peaceful and can use your talent to live a meaningful life.John Banyan1 What is “allegory”? In what way is Banyan The Pilgrims Progress i
16、s allegory? What are the literal meaning and symbolic meaning of the work?A. Allegory is a tale in verse or prose in which the characters, actions or settings represent abstract ideas general truth or moral qualities, and a story that has two meanings, literal and symbolic.B. The literal meaning: Ch
17、ristians pilgrimage from the city of Destruction to the Holy City The symbolic meaning:religious people,people should follow Christians it reflects the society and culture. 2 In the part Vanity Fair, what is the Vanity Fair? What are sold and brought at the VF? What do Christian and his companion Fa
18、ithful want to buy? How are they treated as a fair? What is the meaning of this excerpt?A. Vanity fair is a name of a town and there is a fiar kept.B. Everything in vanity is can be sold and brought,such as jouses,ladns,trades,places.C. Christian and his companion want to buy “truth”D. They was mock
19、ed and taunted,and were taken and beaten by the people in the the people in fair besmeares(玷污) them with dirt,and put them with dirt,and put them into the cage.E. “Vanity”means emptiness or worthlessness,and hence the fair is an allegory of the worldliness(俗气) and the corruption of the religious lif
20、e through the attractions of the Banyan described the world that lost truth and were full of selfishness and corruption.Part The Age of Enlightenment in EnglandDaniel Defoe1 What does Enlightenments Movement mean? What do you know about the English literature of the Enlightenment? The Enlightenments
21、 Movement on the whole, was an expression of struggle of the then progressive class of bourgeoisies against feudalism.Nearly all writers frequented the coffeehouses and matters discussed there became subjects of literature. And the literary leaders emphasized formality or correctness of style. The r
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