Vedlegg
UNIVERSITETET
I OSLO
Institutt f or litteratur, områdestudier og europeiske språk
SKOLEEKSAMEN/SKULEEKSAMEN
2008/VÅR
4 (fire) sider
Bokmål/Nynorsk
ENG1303: Britisk litteratur, innføring
Vedlegg: 2
4 timer/timar
Fredag, 23.05. 2008
Tillatte hjelpemidler/Tillatne hjelpemiddel: Engelsk-engelsk ordbok
Answer ONE question.
1. Give an interpretation of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Ulysses’. (Text provided.)
OR
2. Several of the texts you have read for this course, have a female main character. Choose
TWO of these texts and discuss to what extent the female character may be said to give
expression to a specifically feminine perspective. (You should avoid unnecessary plot
summary.)
OR
3. James Joyce, ‘The Dead’.
Comment on the extract provided and relate it to the rest of the short story. (You should
pay particular attention to symbols and avoid unnecessary plot summary.)
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ENG1303 Vedlegg 1 – Text for essay question No. 1
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Ulysses’
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vexed the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honoured of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers;
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breath were life. Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this grey spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle —
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil
This labour, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and through soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.
Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere
Of common duties, decent not to fail
In offices of tenderness, and pay
Meet adoration to my household gods,
When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.
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There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners,
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Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me —
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;
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Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
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Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
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Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
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We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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ENG1303 – Vedlegg 2. Text for essay question No. 3
From James Joyce, ‘The Dead’:
Generous tears filled Gabriel's eyes. He had never felt like that himself towards any
woman, but he knew that such a feeling must be love. The tears gathered more thickly in his
eyes and in the partial darkness he imagined he saw the form of a young man standing under
a dripping tree. Other forms were near. His soul had approached that region where dwell the
vast hosts of the dead. He was conscious of, but could not apprehend, their wayward and
flickering existence. His own identity was fading out into a grey impalpable world: the solid
world itself, which these dead had one time reared and lived in, was dissolving and
dwindling.
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow
again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the
lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the
newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the
dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther
westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon
every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly
drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren
thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe
and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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