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British Literature Foreign Languages Department, Yuncheng University 第 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 5页共 NUMPAGES \* MERGEFORMAT 5页 British Literature (II) 命题教师 袁大勇 For Class 0803，04 Read the following poem and then answer the questions. (30%) A RED, RED ROSE by: Robert Burns (1759-1796) O, MY Luves like a red, red rose, Thats newly sprung in June. O, my Luves like the melodie, Thats sweetly playd in tune. As fair art thou, my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a the seas gang dry. Till a the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi the sun! And I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only luve, And fare thee weel a while! And I will come again, my luve, Tho it were ten thousand mile! What figures of speech do you find in the poem? And please point out examples to illustrate your discovery. (7%) How does the speaker express his love? (8%) Make a scansion of the poem. (15%) II．Read the following soliloquy and then answer the questions. （30%） 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. To die- to sleep- No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wishd. To die- to sleep. To sleep- perchance to dream: ay, theres the rub! For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. Theres the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th oppressors wrong, the proud mans contumely, The pangs of despisd love, the laws delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus mak