新托福iBT聽力經(jīng)典加試浪漫主義詩歌(試題及答案)

1、新托福iBT聽力經(jīng)典加試:浪漫主義詩歌(試題及答案)英國浪漫主義詩人華茲華斯及其詩歌18-19 世紀英國浪漫主義(Romanticism) 詩歌的鼻祖華茲華斯Wordsworth 的詩歌。浪漫主義這個稱謂是后人加上的，不是浪漫主義詩人對自己的稱呼(此處有題)。浪漫主義Romanticism 不是我們平時理解的浪漫romance/romantic，和男女之間的愛情無關(guān)。Romanticism針對的是普通人common people 而不是少數(shù)受過教育的人educated people。浪漫主義詩人用簡單的語言simple language 描述日常生活中常見的事物、孩子、人類情感以及自然和人類之

2、間的互動(有題：浪漫主義詩的特點。(雙選)針對的是個人情感，與古典主義不同。)。教授以自己為例，說自己在散步時感受到了這種互動(此處出題)與romanticism 針鋒相對的一種風(fēng)格是neo-classism(新古典主義)，也是那位romanticism 的鼻祖很反對的。Neo-classism(新古典主義) 使用太多的elaboration，如sky 不叫sky，而叫blue extend;bird 不叫bird，而叫feathered person。(有題：重聽題，是對古典主義詩的描述，說他們把bird 說成fly people，大概是表現(xiàn)古典主義詩的特征。)教授把該詩人的作品分為三個階段

3、。早期的浪漫主義作品，主要描述植物的(花與草)詩歌。中期時是對一些社會現(xiàn)象做的尖銳評論。后期時對早期的作品進行修改review。目前，文學(xué)界還是認為它早期的作品是最好的。教授還說，他的詩越寫到后來就越寫越糟糕，反而早期的比較好，本文重點講了他第一階段的詩)重聽題，大意是說教授認為作者第一階段的早期作品比較好，但是在課上不對以后的作品作評價，暗示了什么?本文重點講了他第一階段的詩。)補充資料：ROMANTICISMRomanticism is a style in the fine arts and literature. It emphasizes passion rather than re

4、ason, and imagination and intuition rather than logic. Romanticism favors full expression of the emotions, and free, spontaneous action rather than restraint and order.Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality that typified

5、 Classicism in general and late 18th-century Neoclassicism in particular.It was also to some extent a reaction against the Enlightenment and against 18th-century rationalism and physical materialism in general. Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, t

6、he personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.Romanticism in literature. During the Romantic Movement, most writers were discontented with their world. It seemed commercial, inhuman, and standardized. To escape from modern life, the Romantics turned their interes

7、t to remote and faraway places, the medieval past, folklore and legends, and nature and the common people. The Romantics were also drawn to the supernatural.WORDSWORTHWordsworth, William (1770-1850), is considered by many scholars to be the most important English Romantic poet. In 1795, Wordsworth m

8、et Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The two men collaborated on Lyrical Ballads (1798), a collection of poems frequently regarded as the symbolic beginning of the English Romantic movement.Wordsworth argued that serious poems could describe situations from common life and be written in the ordinary language

9、 really used by men. He believed such poems could clarify the primary laws of our nature. Wordsworth also insisted that poetry is emotion recollected in tranquility.He explained that his poetry used everyday language rather than the elevated poetic language of such earlier writers as Dryden and Pope

10、 because everyday language comes closer to expressing genuine human feeling. For the same reason, he wanted to write about everyday topics, especially rural, unsophisticated subjects.Wordsworth and Coleridge lived most of their lives in the scenic Lake District of northwestern England and wrote expr

11、essively about the beauties of nature and the thoughts that natural beauty inspires. Many of their blank verse poems are written in a meditative, conversational tone new to English poetry.Wordsworth, as we have said, is the chief representative典型的 of some of the most important principles原則 in the ro

12、mantic movement, but he is far more a member of any movement, through his supreme poetic expression of some of the greatest spiritual ideals he belongs among the five or six greatest English poets.First, he is the profoundest interpreter of nature in all poetry. His feeling for nature has two aspect

13、s. he is keenly sensitive, and in a more delicately discriminating way than any of his predecessors, to all the external beauty and glory of nature, especially inanimate nature of mountains, woods and fields, streams and flowers, in all their infinitely varied aspects. A wonderful joyous and intimat

14、e sympathy with them is one of his controlling impulses.In the second place, Wordsworth is the most consistent of all the great English poets of democracy, though here as elsewhere his interest is mainly not t in the external but in the spiritual aspect of things.The obstinacy and these poems are on

15、ly the most conspicuous result of Wordsworth chief temperamental defect, which was an almost total lack of the sense of humor. Regarding himself as the prophet of a supremely important new gospel, he never admitted the possibility of error in his own point of view and was never able to stand aside from his poetry and criticize it dispassionately.題目：問題一：浪漫主義詩的特點。(雙選)針對的是個人情感，與古典主義不同。問題二：浪漫主義這個稱謂是后人加上的，不是他們本身這樣稱呼自己的。問題三：重聽題 是對古典主義詩的描述，說他們把 bird 說成 fly people。大概是表現(xiàn)古典主義詩的特征。問題四：教授對