English 150: Midterm Study Guide
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[edit] English 150: Midterm Study Guide
[edit] Identifications:
1)--Is it French you are talking sir? The old woman said to Haines.
Haines spoke to her again a longer speech, confidently.
--Irish, Buck Mulligan said. Is there Gaelic on you?
2) Synge Song
3) Is that all? Isn’t it enough? D’ye know, comrade, that more die o’consumption than are killed in th’ wars? An it’s all because of th’ system we’re livin’ undher?
4) the greasy till
5) I’ll say, a strange man is a marvel, with his mighty talk; but what’s a squabble in your back-yard, and the blow of a loy, have taught me that there’s a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed.
6) Though I am old with wandering/ Through hollow lands and hilly lands,/ I will find out where she has gone,/ And kiss her lips and take her hands:/ And walk among long dappled grass,/ And pluck till time and times are done/ The silver apples of the moon,/ The golden apples of the sun
7) Irish poet learn your trade/ Sing whatever is well made,/ Scorn the sort now growing up/ All out of shape from toe to top,/ Their unrembering hearts and heads/ Base-born products of base beds.
8) that morning/ When he took me in his boat,/ The screw purling, turning/ Indolent fathoms white,/ I tasted freedom with him
9) We have no prairies/ to slice a big sun at evening--/ Everywhere the eye concedes to/ Encroaching horizon
10) O you are not lying in the wet clay,/ For it is a harvest evening now and we/ Are piling up the ricks against the moonlight/ And you smile up at us–eternally
[edit] Essay Topics:
1. Discuss the image of the land in three of the works we’ve read.
2. Compare and contrast the representation of Irish women in a work by a male author and a work by a female author
3. Many of the works we’ve read this quarter deal with violence. Discuss the representation of violence in two works we’ve read. Is violence portrayed in a positive or a negative way? Is violence seen as being productive?
