考点一：The Canterbury Tales
参考A: 1~3: spring rain 4: spring flower 5: spring wind 6~7: spring grass 8~9: spring sun 10~~18: the celebration of spring (10~13: birds’ singing; 14~18: people’s pilgrimages)
参考B: Structure beauty: The 18 lines form a coherent whole which is a sentence that composes of two adverbial clauses of time (line 1~11) and a main clause (12~18), expressing the essential idea of the whole work.
考点二：Why is spring compared to a king? (4’)
1.As the first season of a year, spring is as powerful as the king because it gives life to
everything.
2.The use of the “king” can rime with “spring” and “sing”.
考点三：What’s the effect of repeating “come live with me and be my love”?
1.For the speaker’s part, he can strengthen his passion to his love, he sounds more
confident than ever and the plea becomes more persuasive with each repetition.
2.For the listener’s part, we can understand speaker’intention much more clearly. The
listener will feel that shepherd’s love is strong and sincerely.
3.It makes the ending match up with the beginning so as to make the poem a complete
whole.
考点四：What’s the effect of repeating the calls of the birds in each stanza?
1. A good poem is usually like a beautiful song, the calls of the birds are pleasing to the ear.
The repeated songs can give people pleasure and make this poem have a beautiful
rhyme.
2.The repetition of this line make three stanzas from a united whole.
3.The sweat songs of the birds describe their happiness in spring and express their love of
spring. Their songs can also create a happy and peaceful atmosphere for people to enjoy
spring.
4.To emphasize the coming of spring.
考点五：Compare these two poem: （讲义第7和第8面）
1.On one hand, they share the same structure, meter, rhyme pattern and subject matters. They
were written in iambic pentameter with six quatrains, each rhyming aabb. Both poems are about love and nature.
2.On the other hand, they have obvious differences. Marlowe was young, he idealized nature
and love. So his poem was romantic and imaginative. But Raleigh was old, and his attitude was jaded. He shows the reality of life and presents and opposite and negative view towards love and nature described in Marlowe’s poem.
考点六：（可能会考选择题）
Script(剧本): the written work from which a drama is produced; contains stage directions and dialogue.
Stage directions（舞台说明）: notes provided by the playwright to describe how something should be performed on stage. Stage directions often describe elements of the spectacle: lighting, music, sound effects, costumes, properties, and set designs.
Soliloquy（独白）: a long speech given by a character while alone on stage to reveal his or her private thoughts or intentions.
Aside（旁白）: a statement intended to be heard by the audience or by a single other character but
