2017年北大外院英语语言文学考研试题
全部三选一。

一、
1. 有个Polish writer写了本书叫Shakespeare, Our Contemporary。

问你同意这个说法吗，cite Shakespearean plays and recent criticisms 来说明，要求be specific。

2. In Paradise Lost, Milton\'s representation of Satan. 给了段材料，根据材料分析。

3. 有人说Richardson和Fielding只能喜欢一个。

问你prefer哪个。

结合their contribution to the development of the English novel说明。

二、
1. William Wordsworth \"I Wondered Lonely as A Cloud\"中，\"I gazed--and gazed--but little thought\"到诗的末尾，要求分析significant details.
2. \"Womenhood\" is a great concern in Victorian age. 要求选at least two works分析Victorian women\'s social role.
3. Novels end differently, showing the worldview of their authors. Choose 2 or 3 Victorian novels, analyse the ways these novel end & how the endings correspond to (or are at odds with) the authors\' philology of life.
三、
1. 【往年题】Walden, live deliberately. 体现在Thoreau同时期或之前的作品，选两部说明。

2. Modernists were driven by the belief that the assurances once provided by religion and society no longer sufficed. 选两部American modernist的作品，结合ensuing deep sense of loss and despair说明。

3. Robert Frost \"The Most of It\", analyse the speaker\'s tone.。