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Romanticism and Modern Literature(36151-01)
Final Exam
December 22, 2020
Name: Student Number:
I. Explain the meaning of "immortal beauty" in "Ode to a Nightingale" based on the British Library article provided in the electronic lecture note(5)
II. Explain the meaning of the following passage within its poetic context(5)
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
III. Write a short analytical essay on the following passages with the given topics(10*3=30)
III-1. Topic: Byron's idea of a poet and his poetry
'Tis to create, and in creating liveA being more intense, that we endowWith form our fancy, gaining as we giveThe life we image, even as I do now.What am I? Nothing-but not so art thou,Soul of my thought! with whom I traverse earth,Invisible but gazing, as I glowMixed with thy Spirit, blended with thy birth,And feeling with thee in my crushed feelings' dearth
III-2. Topic: Shelley's idea of elegy
The breath whose might I have invok'd in song
Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven,
Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng
Whose sails were never to the tempest given;
The massy earth and sphered skies are riven!
I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar;
Whilst, burning through the inmost veil of Heaven,
The soul of Adonais, like a star,
Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
III-3. Topic: Keats and his idea of death
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—
To thy high requiem become a sod.
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