四川广播电视大学文学英语赏析不计分练习-Quiz 6答案

1、:100 :100? ? ? ? ?In this chapter , you have been exposed to the functions and forms of poetry , and the devices poetry uses. Have they helped you reduce feelings of anxiety when reading poetry ? Test yourself and see.?Read the extracts and answer the questions.Extract 1?I think I could turn and liv

2、e with animals?I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-containd,I stand and look at them long and long.?They do not sweat and whine about their condition,They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,No

3、t one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.So they show their relations to me and I accept them,They bring me tokens of myself, they evi

4、nce them plainly in their possession.A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,Head high in the forehead, wide between the ears,Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,Eyes full of sparkling wickedness, ears finely cut, flexibly moving.His nostrils dilate as my he

5、els embrace him,His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure as we race around and return.(Walt Whitman Song of Myself )?What are the prominent features of the poem?The absence of constrast between human life and that of animals.?The use of parallelism and repetition.The shifts of focus from sight to

6、hearing.:B2.Acquainted with the Night?I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain C and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light.?I have looked down the saddest city lane.I have passed by the watchman on his beatAnd dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.?I have s

7、tood still and stopped the sound of feetWhen far away an interrupted cryCame over houses from another street,?But not to call me back or say good-bye;And further still at an unearthly height,One luminary clock against the sky?Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.I have been one acquainted with the night.(Robert Frost)?Which of the following is true of the poem?The theme is about the alienation of mankind from its env