The poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was written by ___________.

A、Evangeline

B、The Cross of Snow

C、The Evening Star

D、Footsteps of Angels

A、Isabella

B、The Eve of St. Agnes

C、Lamia

D、All for Love

A．Sonnet 18 is a poem about the immortality through marriage

B．Sonnet 18 is a poem about the immortality through offspring．

C．Sonnet 18 is a poem about the immortality through love

D．Sonnet 18 is a poem about the immortality through literatur

E．

1. ____ is an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others. 2. “I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.” To paraphrase, the verses state that “The ___ of my love is like those who just finished church worship.” 3. “my childhood’s faith” is characterized by ___ so that it is analogized to “my” deep love. 4. The tone that runs through and permeates the poem is ___ and ___.

. Alfred Prufrock" is______.

A．an old man

B．a godlike figure

C．a restless young man

D．a muse

A、Donne refers to the “moving of th’ earth” and the fear it strikes into the hearts of men.

B、Donne refers to the Ptolemaic spheres in which the celestial bodies moved.

C、Donne argues that his love is flexible and will expand “like gold to airy thinness beat”.

D、All the three answers mentioned above are good examples of Donne’s use of scientific conceits in this poem.

how he was initiated into poetry by Edward Fitzgerald’s Omar Khayyam at the age of fourteen. "It was like a sudden conversion", he said, an "overwhelming introduction to a new world of feeling." From then on, till about his twentieth year of age (1908), he took intensive courses in Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Rossetti and Swinburne.

It is, no doubt, a period of keen enjoyment...At this period, the poem, or the poetry of a single poet, invades the youthful consciousness and assume complete possession for a time...The frequent result is an outburst of scribbling which we may call imitation...It is not deliberate choice of a poet to mimic, but writing under a kind of daemonic possession by one poet.

Thus, the young Eliot started his career with a mind preoccupied by certain Romantic poets. His imitative scribbling survives in the Harvard Eliot Collection, a part of which is published as Poems Written in Early Youth. "A Lyric" (1905), written at Smith Academy and Eliot’s first poem ever shown to anther’s eye, is a straightforward and spontaneous overflow of a simple feeling. Modeled on Ben Johnson, the poem expresses a conventional theme, and can be summarized in a single sentence: since time and space are limited, let us love while we can. The hero is totally self-confident, with no Prufrockian self-consciousness. He never thinks of retreat, never recognizes his own limitations, and never experiences the kind of inner struggle, which will so blight the mind of Prufrock.

"Song: When we came home across the hill" (1907), written after Eliot entered Harvard College, achieved about the same degree of success. The poem is a lover’s mourning of the loss of love, the passing of passion, and this is done through a simple contrast. The flowers in the field are blooming and flourishing, but those in his lover's wreath are fading and withering. The point is that, as flowers become waste then they have been plucked, so love passes when it has been consummated. The poem achieves an effect similar to that of Shelley’s "when the amp is shattered".

The form, the dictation and the images are all borrowed. So is the carpe diem theme. In "Song: The Moon- lower Opens" (1909), Eliot makes the flower -- love comparison once more and complains that his love is too old-hearted and does not have "tropical flowers/With scarlet life for me". In these poem, Eliot is not writing in his own right, but the poets who possessed him are writing through him. He is imitating in the usual sense of the word, having not yet developed his critical sense. It should not be strange to find him at this stage so interested in flowers: the flowers in the wreath, this morning’s flowers, flowers of yesterday, the moonflower which opens to the moth -- not interested in them as symbols, but interested in them as beautiful objects. In these poems, the Romantics did not just work on his imagination; they compelled his imagination to work their way.

Though merely fin-de-siecle routines, some of these early poems already embodied Eliot’s mature thinking, and forecasted his later development. "Before Morning" (1908) shows his awareness of the co-habitation of beauty and decay under the same sun and the same sky. "Circle’s Palace" (1909) shows that he already entertained the view of women as emasculating their male victims or sapping their strength. "On a Portrait" (1909) describes women as mysterious and evanescent, existing "beyond the circle of our thought". Despite all these hints of later development, these poems do not represent the Eliot we know. Their voice is the voice of tradition and their style. is that of the Romantic period. It seems to me that the early Eliot’s connection with Tennyson is especially interesting, in that Tennyson seems to have foreshadowed Eliot’s own development.

Eliot was wrapped up i

A．Edward Fitzgerald’s poems

B．Romantic poets

C．Classical literature

D．Romantic literature

A、the praise of love

B、the call of revolution

C、the praise of friendship

D、the love of beauty

The love poem The Flea was written by

A．William Shakespeare.

B．Philip Sidney.

C．Thomas More.

D．John Donne.

People seldom feel neutral about poetry(诗). Those who love it sometimes give the impression that it is an adequate substitution for food, shelter, and love. It isn't. Words, no matter how satisfying, are never an equivalent for life itself and its human experiences. Those who dislike poetry on principle sometimes claim, on the other hand, that poetry is only words and good for nothing. That's not true either. It is easy to become frustrated by words—in poetry or in life—but when words represent and recreate genuine human feelings, as they often do in poetry, they can be very important. Poetry is, in fact, more than just words. It is an experience of words, and those who know how to read poetry can easily ex- tend their experience of life, their sense of what other people are like, their awareness of themselves, and their range of human feelings.

One reason poetry can be so important is that it is so closely concerned with feelings. Poetry is often full of ideas, too, and sometimes poems can be powerful experiences of the mind, but most poems are primarily about how people feel rather than how people think. Poems provide, in fact, a language for feeling, and one of poetry's most insistent merits involves its attempt to express the inexpressible. How can anyone, for example, put into words what it means to be in love or what it feels like to lose someone one cares about？ Poetry tries, and it often captures exactly the shade of emotion that feels just right to a reader. No single poem can be said to express all the things that love or death feels like, or means, but one of the joys of experiencing poetry occurs when we read a poem and want to say, "Yes, that is just what it is like; I know exactly what that line means but I've never been able to express it so well " Poetry can be the voice of our feelings even when our minds are speechless with grief or joy.

"People seldom feel neutral about poetry" (in Para. 1) in this context means that______.

A．few people think that poetry is neutral

B．people always differ in their views about poetry

C．people rarely take a biased opinion about poetry

D．people generally think of poetry as extremely important or totally useless