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...What though the field be lost?All is not lost; the unconquerable Will,And study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield;And what is else not to be overcome?They Glory never shall his wrath or mightExtort from me. To bow and sue for graceWith suppliant knee, and deifie his powerWho from the terrour of this Arm so lateDoubted his Empire, that were low indeed,That were an ignominy and shame beneathThis downfall; since by Fate the strength of GodsAnd this Empyreal substance cannot fail,Since through experience of this great eventIn Arms not worse, in foresignt much advanc"t,We may with more successful hope resolveTo wage by force or guile eternal WarrIrreconcileable, to our grand Foe,Who now triumphs, and in th" excess of joySole reigning holds the Tyranny of Heav"n.
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Identify the work from which the passage is selected.(2 points)
【正确答案】正确答案：Paradise Lost.
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What is the Miltonic Style?(4 points)
【正确答案】正确答案：Milton"s style is rich and full of splendor. It is replete with numerous deliberate devices that heighten dignity and govern imaginative and emotional response. His sentences are often long. Yet, to express his sublimity of thought, he writes in a style that is unsurpassed in its sonority, eloquence, majesty and grandeur—the Miltonic style.
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Comment on the significance of the work from which the above passage is selected.(4 points)
【正确答案】正确答案：The above passage is excerpted from Milton"s masterpiece Paradise Lost, which is drawn from the Old Testment of the Bible and is full of biblical and classical allusions. The poem is a triumph of soaring imagination and far-ranging intellectual grasp in Milton"s most forceful and exalted style. The most striking character of this epic—Satan is presented as the hero with determination to fight against God. So this epic turns out to be an eloquent expression of the revolutionary spirit of the English bourgeois revolution, a call to resist tyranny and to fight for freedom. Herein lies the great significance of this work.