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Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten, I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy. …. Questions:
1.Who is the poet celebrating? Whom do lines 2-3 also include in the celebration? 2.What beliefs of the poet are set forth in this poem?
Passage 3
There was music from my neighbor?s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. Questions:
1. Who is the author and where is this passage taken from?
2. What does the author most likely indicate in the quoted passage? Passage 4
With this excellent resolve for the future, Goodman Brown felt himself justified in making more haste on his present evil purpose. He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and there is this peculiarity in such a solitude, that the traveler knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps, he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude. Questions:
1. Identify the author and the title of the story from which this excerpt is taken. 2. What?s Brown?s purpose to go to the woods?
IV: Give brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)
1. Please state the major principles of Imagism.
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2. What is the theme of Ezra Pound?s poem?
Exercises Two:
I. Fill in the blanks:
1. In the early nineteenth century，Washington Irving wrote The Sketch which became the first work by an American writer to win financial Success on both sides of the Atlantic．
2. In 1828，Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language．
3. In 1755，Samuel Johnson published his remarkable dictionary named Dictionary of the English Language．
4. The American Transcendentalists formed a club called The Transcendental Club ．
5. The Transcendental Club often met at Ralph Waldo Emerson?s Concord home．
6. Washington Irving was regarded as the first great prose stylist of American romanticism．
7. In Washington Irving?s work The Sketch Book appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature．
8. The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washington Irving?s work named The Sketch Book．
9. Washington Irving was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War．
10. Washington Irving also wrote two biographies，one is The Life of Oliver Goldsmith，and the other is The Life of George Washington ．
11. The first important American novelist was James Fenimore Coope．
12. The best of James Fenimore Cooper?s sea romances was The Spy.The hero of the novel represents John Paul Jones，the great naval fighter of the Revo1utionary War． 13. The central figure in the Leather stocking Tales is Natty Bumppo ，who goes by the various names of Leather stocking，Deer slayer，Pathfinder and Hawkeye． 14.Published in 1823，The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna was the first of the Leather stocking Tales，in their order of publication time，and probably the first true romance of the frontier in American literature．
II. Identify the fragments． 1.
From the listless repose of the place，and the peculiar character of its inhabitants，who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers，this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW，and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country．Drowsy and dreamy influence seems to hang over the land，and to pervade the very atmosphere．Some say that the place was bewitched by a high German doctor，during the early days of the settlement；others，that an old Indian chief，the prophet or wizard of his tribe．held his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson．
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Questions：
1）Who is the writer of this short story from which the passage is taken? 2）What is the title of this short story? 3）Give a definition of“short story”． 2.
“Arms and the clarion for the battle，but the song of thanksgiving to the victory!”answered the liberated David．“Friend，”he added，thrusting forth his lean,delicate hand forwards Hawkeye，in kindness，while his eyes twinkled and grew moist，“I thank thee the hairs of my head still grow where they were first rooted by Providence for，though those of other men may be more glossy and curling，I have ever found mine own well suited to the brain they shelter．That I did not join myself to the battle，was less owing to disinclination，than to the bonds of the heathen．Valiant and skilful hast thou proved thyself in the conflict，and I hereby thank thee，before proceeding to discharge other and more important duties，because thou hast proved thyself well worthy of a Christian?s praise．? Questions:
1）This novel was written by the first American novelist．What is his name? 2）What is the name of the novel?
3）The central figure in this novel appeared in this passage．It is ．
III. Answer the questions:
1. How to define the Romantic Period in American literary history?
2. What is the historical and socio-cultural background of the Romantic Period in America? Historical events affecting the making of American literature of the time:
1.19th Century Romanticism & Beginning of national Literature;
2. Irving, Bryant, Cooper, all spent years abroad, gave shape to a national literature, taking Materials from Europe to write in conventional forms.
3.Characterized by an emphasis on imagination, emotion rather than on intellect and reason, on personal than social concerns, on rebellion than order.
Subjects: Nature, Past, Foreign
3. What are the literary characteristics of American Romantic Period?
4. What is the relationship between American Romanticism and European Romanticism?
5. What is the theme of Rip Van Winkle? List the major works of Washington Irving and discuss the artistic characteristics of his works.
Exercises Three:
I: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10
points in all, 1 point for each)
Group 1 Column A
Column B
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( c ) 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne a. Nature
( b ) 2. Washington Irving b. Rip Van Winkle
( a ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. The House of Seven Gales ( e ) 4. Mark Twain d. The Great Gatsby ( d ) 5. Scott Fitzgerald e. The Gilded Age Group 2
Column A Column B
（ c ）1. Charles Drouet a. The Great Gatsby
( e ) 2. Ishmael b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( b ) 3. Jim c. Sister Carrie ( a ) 4. George Wilson d. A Rose for Emily ( d ) 5. Emily Grierson e. Moby Dick
II: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives.
Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)
( ) 1. The period of ____ started with the publication of Washington Irving?s The Sketch Book
and ended with Walt Whitman?s Leaves of Grass.
A. American Romanticism B. American Realism
C. American Transcendentalism D. American Classicism
( ) 2. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent
convention of American literature. Such a desire is particularly evidence in ____ Leather-Stocking Tales.
A. Washington Irving?s B. Waldo Emerson?s C. James Fennimore Cooper?s D. Walt Whitman?s
( ) 3. New England Transcendentalism was started by a group of people who were members of
an informal club, i.e. the Transcendental Club in New England in the ____. A. 1850s B. 1840s C. 1830s D. 1860s
( ) 4. The American ____ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral
values. A. Puritanism B. Unitarianism C. Deism D. Protestantism
( ) 5. In his famous poem Song of Myself, Walt Whitman sets forth two principal beliefs: the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value, and the theory of ____, which is illustrated by lengthy catalogues of people and things.
A. nationality B. universality C. nature D. community
( ) 6. Which of the following is NOT what Emerson put forward in his essays?
A. the Over-Soul B. the formal religion of the churches and the Deistic philosophy C. Nature D. the importance of individual
( ) 7. Moby-Dick is a mixture of fantasy and ____ based upon the South Pacific whaling industry.
A. romanticism B. naturalism C. realism D. surrealism
( ) 8. Which of the following statements about Hawthorne is NOT right?
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