【自考答案】英美文学选读试题
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I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.
1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.B
A. 27
B. 38
C.47
D. 52
2. john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last ______.C
A. romances
B. dramas
C. great poems
D. ballads
3. The novels of ______ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower— class people.C
A. John Milton
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Henry Fielding
D. Jonathan Swift
4. The w ork ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth’s greatest work was ______.B
A. Lyrical Ballads
B. The Prelude
C. Poems in Two Volumes
D. The Excursion
5. The author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is ______.C
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Johathan Swift
C. Henry Fielding
D. William Blake
6. The works of ______ are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle —class women, particularly governess.*B
A. Charlotte Bronte
B. D.H. Lawrence
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Jane Austen
7. All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT ______.D
A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. ”
B. “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Septemer 3, 1802. ”
C. “The Solitary Reaper. ”
D. “The Chimney Sweeper. ”
8. The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is ______.D
A. A Tale of a Tub
B. The Battle of the Books
C. A Modest Proposal
D. Gulliver's Travels
9 “If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”comes from Shelly’s ______.D
A. “To a Skylark”
B. “Adonais”
C. “Ode to Liberty”
D. “Ode to the West Wind”
10. In Jane Austen' s first novel ______, she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.B
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Emma
D. Persuasion
11. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest ______ writers of the Victorian Age.D
A. romantic
B. modernist
C. socialist
D. critical realist
12. Charlotte Bronte' s most autobiographical work, ______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.A
A. Jane Eyre
B. Shirley
C. Villette
D. The Professor
13. William Wordsworth' s theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people. The preface to the second edition of ______ acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.A
A. Lyrical Ballads
B. The Prelude
C. Poems in Two Volums
D. The Excursion
14. George Bernard Shaw' s play ______ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.*C
A. Widowers’Houses
B. Too True to Be Good
C. Mrs. Warren' s Profession
D. Candida
15. Eliot' s most important single poem ______, has been hailed as a landmark and
a model of the 20th-century English poetry.B
A. The Hollow Men
B. The Waste Land
C. Prurrock and Other Observations
D. Poems 1909-25
16. D. https://www.360docs.net/doc/1d15450691.html,wrence’s autobiographical novel, ______ shows the conflict between the earthy, coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined, strong —willed and up — climbing mother.A
A. Sons and Lovers
B. The White Peacock
C. The Trespasser
D. The Rainbow
17. “To be, or not to be —that is the question; /Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?” These words are from ______.D
A. King Lear
B. Romeo
C. Antonio
D. Hamlet
18. John Milton’s last important work, ______ is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.A
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Lydidas
19. The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.B
A. John Milton
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Henry Fielding
D. Jonathan Swift
20. Drapier is the pseudonym of ______.A
A. Jonathan Swift
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Henry Fielding
D. William Blake
21. One of Dickens' later works, ______ in which he presents a criticism of the governmental branches which run an indefinite procedure of management of affairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.B
A. Bleak House
B. Little Dorrit
C. Hard Times
D. A Tale of Two Cities
22. In the second part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in ______.A
A. Brobdingnag
B. Lilliput
C. Flying Island
D. Houyhnhnm
23. Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories, which include ______ and mythological and biblical allusions.A
A. symbolism
B. free indirect speech
C. contrast
D. dialogue
24. Ernest Hemingway, had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code, known as “______,” which is actually an attitude towards life.B
A. facing the reality
B. grace under pressure
C. honesty with benevolence
D. security coming first
25. The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his own experience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a ______ novelist.C
A. naturalist
B. imagist
C. psychological
D. feminist
26. Theodore Dreiser' s focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century in his work ______.D
A. The Genius
B. An American Tragedy
C. Dreiser Looks at Russia
D. “Trilogy of Desire”
27. Emily Dickinson frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader, and ______ to vivify some abstract ideas.D
A. images
B. metaphor
C. symbols
D. personification
28. In his later works, Melville becomes more reconciled with the ______, in which he admits, one must live by rules.B
A. women
B. world of man
C. family
D. politicians
29. Walt Whitman' s ______ has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention in America.B
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Leaves of Grass
C. A Passage to India
D. Rip Van Winkle
30. Mark Twain’s full literary career began to blossom in 1869 with a travel book ______, an account of American tourists in Europe.A
A. Innocents Abroad
B. The Portrait of A Lady
C. The Grapes of Wrath
D. The Great Gatsby
31. With the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the ______ approach, Henry James' s importance, as well as his wide influence as a novelist and critic, has been all the more conspicuous.A
A. deconstruction
B. romantic
C. Freudian
D. analytic
32. Emily Dickinson addresses the issues that concern the whole human beings in her poems, which include religion, death, ______, love, and nature.A
A. immortality
B. wealth
C. power
D. politics
33. In Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser expressed his ______ pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.B
A. romantic
B. realistic
C. naturalistic
D. modernistic
34. Profound ideas in Robert Frost's poems are delivered under the disguise of ______.A
A. the plain language and the simple form
B. the vivid descriptions
C. metaphors
D. the complicated narration
35. In ______ Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.B
A. The Green Hills of Africa
B. Death in the Afternoon
C. The Snows of Kilimanjaro
D. To Have and Have Not
36 Of Faulkner’s literary works, four novels are masterpieces by any standards: The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom ! and ______.A
A. Go Down, Moses
B. The Fable
C. The Snows of Kilimanjaro
D. To Have and Have Not
37. As Whitman saw it, ______ could play a vital part in the process of creating
a new nation.C
A. music
B. fiction
C. poetry
D. painting
38. In many of Hawthorne' s stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, especially in his The house of the Seven Gables and ______.B
A. Go Down, Moses
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. As I Lay Dying
D. Song of Myself
39. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the ______ and the founder of psychological realism.B
A. “stream-of-consciousness” novels
B. m etaphysical poems
C. short stories
D. literary criticism
40. Generally considered to be Henry James’s masterpiece, ______ incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a Europe an cultural environment.B
A. The Ambassadors
B. Daisy Miller
C. The American
D. The Portrait of A Lady
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II. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
41. Wherefore, Bees of England, forge
Many a weapon, chain, and scourge,
That these stingless drones may spoil
The forced produce of your toil?
Questions.
A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the stanza is taken.
Song to the Men of England -- Percy Shelley
B. What do you know about the poem' s writing background?
This poem was written at a time of turbulent unrest. On August 16, 1819, when about 60000 people were holding a rally in St.Peter’s field near Manchester, demanding universal suffrage, parliamentary reform and the repeal of the Corn Law, a troop of cavalry opened fire on them, killed more than a dozen and wounded several hundreds. The killing was ironically referred to as “Peterloo Massacre”. Shelley, being exiled in Italy, wrote several political lyrics in protest against the government’s barbarous action and calling the working people to rise up and overthrow the rule of the idle class.
C. What do you think the poet intends to say in the poem?
The poem was intended to depict the clash of two classes of society and the fact that workers
toil all for the benefit of the rich.
42. Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half -deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
(The lines above are taken from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S Eliot. )
Questions..
A. What does the poem present?
As for England, the aftershocks of World War I directly contributed to the dissolution of the British Empire. Eliot saw society as paralyzed and wounded, and he imagined that culture was crumbling and dissolving. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufro ck” demonstrates this sense of indecisive paralysis as the
titular speaker wonders whether he should eat a piece of fruit, make a radical change, or if he has the fortitude to keep living.
B. What form is the poem composed in?
“Prufrock” is a variation on the dramatic monologue, a type of poem popular with Eliot’s predecessors. Dramatic monologues are similar to soliloquies in plays. The rhyme scheme of this poem is irregular but not random.
C. What does the poem suggest?
It is an examination of the tortured psyche of the prototypical modern man—overeducated, eloquent, neurotic, and emotionally stilted. Prufrock, the poem’s speaker, seems to be addressing a potential lover, with whom he would like to “force the moment to its crisis” by somehow consummatin g their relationship.
43. My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
Questions.
A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the above lines are taken.
After Apple-Picking -- Robert Frost
B. What experience does the poem describe?
After a long day’s work, the speaker is tired of apple picking. He has felt drowsy and dreamy since the morning when he looked through a sheet of ice lifted from the surface of a water trough. Now he feels tired, feels sleep coming on, but wonders whether it is a normal, end-of-the-day
sleep or something deeper.
C. What are the feelings of the speaker?
How we ultimately interpret the tone of the poem has much to do with how we interpret the harvest. Has it been a failure? Certainly there is a sense of incompleteness—”a barrel that I didn’t fill.” The speaker’s inner resources give out before the outer reso urces are entirely collected. On the other hand, the poet speaks only of “two or three apples” remaining, and these only “may” be left over. Do we detect satisfaction, then? The speaker has done all that was within his power; what’s left is the result of m inor, inevitable human imperfection. Is this, then, a poem about
the rare skill of knowing when to quit honorably? This interpretation seems reasonable. 44. This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me —
The simple News that Nature told —
With tender Majesty
Questions.
A. Identify the poet.
Emily Dickinson
B. What idea does the poem express?
The author’s contemporaries could not understand her, so she rested her hope on later generations,
and asked them to judge her tenderly.
C. Why does the poet use dashes and capital letters in the poem?
The dashes are the substitute of the punctuation and provide feeling of music and better rhythm. III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)
Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
45. What are the features of George Bernard Shaw’s characterization in his plays? He makes the trick of showingup one character vividly at the expense of another.
46. Briefly introduce Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" is a rare and wonderful book, its seeming simplicity belying its visionary wisdom. Internationally recognised as a masterpiece of English literature, it also occupies a key position in the history of western art. "Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of "Paradise" and the "Fall." Blake's categories are modes of perception that tend to coordinate with a chronology that would become standard in Romanticism: childhood is a state of
protected innocence rather than original sin, but not immune to the fallen world and its institutions. This world sometimes impinges on childhood itself, and in any event becomes known through "experience," a state of being marked by the loss of childhood vitality, by fear and inhibition, by social and political corruption, and by the manifold oppression of Church, State, and the ruling classes. The volume's "Contrary States" are sometimes signalled by patently repeated or contrasted titles: in Innocence, Infant Joy, in Experience, Infant Sorrow; inInnocence, The Lamb, in Experience, The Fly and The Tyger. The stark simplicity of poems such as The Chimney Sweeper and The Little Black Boy display Blake's acute sensibility to the realities of poverty and exploitation that accompanied the "dark satanic mills" of the Industrial Revolution.
47. Why does Sister Carrie best embody Dreiser' s naturalistic belief?
Sister Carrie best embodies Dreiser's naturalistic belief that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct and chance,a few extraodinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead
strive,unsuccessfully,to find meaning and purpose for their existence.Carrie,as one of such,senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks to grasp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and material comfort.
48. Briefly state Mark Twain' s magic power with language in his novels.
1) Use of Colloquial Language.The book is written in a colloquial style, in the general standard speech of uneducated Americans.
2) Vernacular Language
3) Local Color
IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)
Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
49. Why is Jane Eyre a successful novel? Give a brief analysis of the theme and charaterization of the novel.
The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society.
Morality :Jane refuses to become Mr. Rochester's paramour because of her "impassioned self-respect and moral conviction." She rejects St. John Rivers' religious fervour as much as the libertine aspects of Mr. Rochester's character. Instead, she works out a morality expressed in love, independence, and forgiveness. God and religion: Throughout the novel, Jane endeavours to attain
an equilibrium between moral duty and earthly happiness. She despises the hypocrisy of Mr. Brocklehurst, and sees the deficiencies in St. John Rivers' indulgent yet detached devotion to his Christian duty. As a child, Jane admires Helen Burns' life's philosophy of 'turning the other cheek', which in turn helps her in adult life to forgive Aunt Reed and the Reed cousins for their cruelty. Although she does not seem to subscribe to any of the standard forms of popular Christianity, she honours traditional morality – particularly seen when she refuses to marry Mr. Rochester until he is widowed. The last sentence of the novel is a prayer of St. John Rivers on his own behalf: "Religion serves to moderate Jane's behavior, but she never represses her true self."
50. A Rose for Emily is one of Faulkner' s short stories. Discuss the character of Emily Grierson and how this character is depicted.
Emily is an embodiment of the south, the old and tradition. At the very beginning of this story, the writer recounts the decoration of her house which is still 1870s style, isn’t change any more. Besides, she is also obstinate. When the new government compel the taxes on her，she refuses to pay the tax and even ridiculously mentions a colonel who has been dead almost ten years. Another example is that she prevents people from installing mail-box on the wall. She keeps the traditional views all the long，but resists to change anything. However, poor Emily is a determined woman. Regardless of people’s criticism, she insists on marrying a northerner whose
social position is apparently lower than her. It is known that in that period of time, hierarchy is prevailing and deep-rooted through out the society. It particularly has a profound influence on marriage. When someone chooses a partner, he or she must consider the social position of the other party to the marriage. However, Emily chooses to disobey the convention and challenges tradition. Given this situation, her failure is quite expectable. However, she cannot get rid of the shackles of the Southern conventions. After all, she captures her lover in her own way and the love is treated with honor.
全国2014年4月自考英美文学选读真题
绝密★考试结束前 全国2014年4月高等教育自学考试 英美文学选读试题 课程代码：00604 请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。全部题目用英文作答。 选择题部分 注意事项： 1．答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。 2．每小题选出答案后，用2 B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。 I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each) Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet. 1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems. A. 27 B. 38 C.47 D. 52 2. john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last ______. A. romances B. dramas C. great poems D. ballads 3. The novels of ______ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower— class people. A. John Milton B. Daniel Defoe C. Henry Fielding D. Jonathan Swift
自考英美文学选读要点总结第一章
Chapter I The Renaissance Period Definitions of the Literary Terms: 文艺复兴时期的界定 1. The Renaissance: The Renaissance marks a transition from the medie val to the modern world. Generally, it refers to the period between the 14 th & 17th centuries. 历史文化背景It first started in Italy, with the flowering of painting, sculpture & literature. From Italy the movement went to emb race the rest of Europe. The Renaissance, which means "rebirth" or "reviva l," is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, such as the re-discovery of ancient Roman & Greek culture, the new discoverie s in geography & astrology, the religious reformation & the economic expa nsion. The Renaissance, therefore, in essence is a historical period in whic h the European humanist thinkers & scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that e xpressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie, & to recover the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. 2. 文艺复兴到英国比较晚的原因The Renaissance was slow in reaching Englan d not only becaus e o f England?s separation from the Continent but also be cause of its domestic unrest. It was not until the reign of Henry VIII that the Renaissance really began to show its effect in England. With Henry VII I?s encouragement the Oxford reformers, scholars and humanists introduc ed classical literature to England. 15th century, began the English Renaissa nce, which was perhaps England?s Golden Age, especially in literature. 人文主义H umanism: Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance. It sprang from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the ancient author s and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its consci ous, intellectual side, for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on s uch a conception that man is the measure of all things. Through the new l earning, humanists not only saw the arts of splendor and enlightenment, b ut the human values represented in the works. Renaissance humanists fou nd in the classics a justification to exalt human nature and came to see th at human beings were glorious creatures capable of individual development in the direction of perfections, and that the world they inhabited was thei rs not to despise but to question, explore, and enjoy. Thus, by emphasizin g the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life, they voiced their beliefs that man did not only have the right to enjoy the bea uty of this life, but had the ability to perfect himself and to perform wond ers. Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare are the b est representatives of the English humanists. The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimi lation.
英美文学选读试题详解3
英美文学选读-阶段测评3 成绩：87.5分 一、Multiple Choice 共40 题 题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分 https://www.360docs.net/doc/1d15450691.html,wrence’s novels( )are generally regarded as his masterpieces. A、The Rainbow，Women in Love B、The Rainbow，Sons and Lovers C、Sons and Lovers，Lady Chatterley’s Lover D、Women in Love，Lady Chatterley’s Lover （P370.para2）劳伦斯的成名作是《儿子和情人》，而其代表作是《虹》和《恋爱中的女人》 标准答案：A 考生答案：A 本题得分：2.5 分 题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分 T.S.Eliot’s poem( )is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream - of -consciousness technique,also a prelude to The Waste Land. A、―Prufrock‖ B、―Gerontion‖ C、The Hollow Men D、Lyrical Ballads （P358.para3）―Gerontion‖是一部用戏剧式独白写成的诗歌，是《荒原》的前奏曲，也采用了意识流派的文风。 标准答案：B 考生答案：B
本题得分：2.5 分 题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分 https://www.360docs.net/doc/1d15450691.html,wrence’s autobiographical novel is( ). A、The Rainbow B、Women in Love C、Sons and Lovers D、Lady Chatterley’s Lover （P369.para1）劳伦斯的作品大多都是从心理上去探求让人的本能的，同时也反映人性中最内在的东西。其作品《儿子和情人》真实地反映了自己在童年时期的家庭状况，被视为其半自传体小说。 标准答案：C 考生答案：C 本题得分：2.5 分 题号: 4 本题分数:2.5 分 The typical representatives of G.B.Shaw’ s early plays are( ). A、Man and Superman，The Apple Cart B、Widowers’ House，Mrs. Warren’ s Profession C、Candida，Mrs. Warren’ s Profession D、The Apple Cart，Widowers’ House （P321-322）。萧伯纳的第一步剧作是Widowers’ House，写于1892年；第二部剧作是Mrs. Warren’ s Profession，写于1893年。 标准答案：B 考生答案：B 本题得分：2.5 分 题号: 5 本题分数:2.5 分 It was only after the publication of( )that https://www.360docs.net/doc/1d15450691.html,wrence was recognized as a prominent novelist.
自考英美文学选读 第一章 文艺复兴时期(英国)(课文翻译)
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How do you un dersta nd the line I loafe and in vite my soul? ” The line in dicates a separati on of the body and the soul. C. What does a spear of summer grass "symbolize? The phrase in dicates Whitma n ' optimism and experie nee. 4. "A nd the n ative hue of resoluti on/Is sicklied o 'r with the pale cast of thought." (Shakespeare, Humlet) A. What does the "n ative hue of resoluti on" mea n? determ in ati on (determ inedn ess, actio n, activity, ...) B. What does the "pale cast of thought" sta nd for? con siderati on (in decisi on, in activity, hesitati on,...) C. What idea do the two lines express? Too much thi nking (con siderati on,...) made (makes) activity (acti on) impossible. 5. "Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; /Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!" A. Ide ntify the poem and the poet. Shelley ' Ode to the West Wind B. What is the "Wild Spirit"? The West Wind; "breath of Autumn ' being" C. What does the "Wild Spirit" destroy and preserve? It destroys things that are dead, it preserves new life. 6. "Whe n the mini ster spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloque nee, and, with his hands on the ope n bible, of the sacred truths of our religi on, and of sain t-like lives and triumpha nt deaths, and of future bliss or misery unu tterable, the n did Goodma nBrow n turn pale, dreadi ng, lest the roof should thun der dow n upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers. A. Ide ntify the title of the short story from which this part is take n. Hawthorne ' Young Goodman Brown B. What had happe ned in the story before this church sce ne? Brow n had atte nded a witches ' party where he saw many prom inent people of the village, the mini ster in cluded. C. Why was Goodma n Brow n afraid the roof might thun der dow n? Brow n was shocked by the mini ster, secretly a member of the evil club, who could talk about sacred truths of the religi on ope nly and un ashamedly. He thought God would punish such hypocrites dow n on them. 7. (A lot of comm on objects have bee n enu merated before, and here are the last two lines of There Was a Child Went Forth :) The horizon ' edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragranee of salt marsh and shore mud. These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day. A. Who is the author of this poem? What is the title of the poem? Whitma n. There was a Child Went Forth B. What does the "Child" sta nd for in the poem? The young grow ing America. C. In one or two senten ces, i nterpret the implied meaning of the two lin es. The poet uses his childhood experie nee of grow ing up and lear ning about the world around him to imply that young America will grow and develop like that. D. How do you un dersta nd These became part of the child ”？ It is interesting to reexamine the sequenee of the items list in this poem which became part of the child ". They reflect the natural process of a boy ' growth. At first, his world was limited within the barnyard. Later, he sought into fields and streets. Then, he became interested in something more mysterious —his fellow huma n bein gs. Fin ally, he was on the symbolic threshold of the outside world, the sea. He had grow n in to a young man from a boy. 8. And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, Whe n I am pinned and wriggli ng on the wall. Then how should begi n