The Nineteenth Century

British Poems
 List of Poems

1 Robert Louis Stevenson:[기출문제-2021]

"Foreign Lands"(1885)

2 Emily Bronte:[기출문제-2020]
"The Night-Wind" (1846)

3 Christina Rossetti:[기출문제-2019]
"Promise Like Pie-Crust" (1861)

4 Percy Bysshe Shelley:[기출문제-2017]

"Mutability"(1816)
1. “Foreign Lands”

Up into the cherry tree

Who should climb but little me?
I held the trunk with both my hands

And looked abroad on foreign lands.

I saw the next door garden lie,
Adorned with flowers before my eye,
And many pleasant places more
That I had never seen before.

I saw the dimpling river pass

And be the sky’s blue looking-glass;
The dusty roads go up and down
With people tramping in to town.

If I could find a higher tree

Farther and farther I should see,
To where the grown-up river slips
Into the sea among the ships,

To where the roads on either hand

Lead onward into fairy land,
Where all the children dine at five,
And all the playthings come alive.
Complete the commentary below by filling in the blank with the
ONE most appropriate word from the poem. Then, explain what
the underlined part means.

<Commentary>

Metaphor can in one way be defined as a figure of speech in

which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action that
it does not literally denote in order to imply a resemblance.
According to this definition, the word “_________” in the poem
is a metaphor for the river, the sight of which the speaker
enjoys.
2. "The Night-Wind”

In summer’s mellow midnight,

A cloudless moon shone through
Our open parlor window
And rosetrees wet with dew.

I sat in silent musing,

The soft wind waved my hair:
It told me Heaven was glorious,
And sleeping Earth was fair.

I needed not its breathing

To bring such thoughts to me,
But still it whispered lowly,
“How dark the woods will be!

“The thick leaves in my murmur

Are rustling like a dream,
And all their myriad voices
Instinct* with spirit seem.”

I said, “Go, gentle singer,

Thy wooing voice is kind,
But do not think its music
Has power to reach my mind.
“Play with the scented flower,
The young tree’s supple bough,
And leave my human feelings
In their own course to flow.”

The wanderer would not leave me;

Its kiss grew warmer still—
“O come,” it sighed so sweetly,
“I’ll win thee ’gainst thy will.

“Have we not been from childhood friends?

Have I not loved thee long?
As long as thou hast loved the night
Whose silence wakes my song.

“And when thy heart is laid at rest

Beneath the church-yard stone
I shall have time enough to mourn
And thou to be alone.”
* Infused
Complete the commentary below by filling in each blank with
the ONE most appropriate word from the poem, respectively.
Then, explain what the underlined part in the poem means.

<Commentary>

Personification gives the attributes of a human being to an

animal, an object, or a concept. In the poem, the “wind” is
personified as a(n) “________” and a(n) “_________.” This use of
personification offers clues to understanding the speaker’s
relationship with nature.
3. "Promise Like Pie-Crust“

Promise me no promises,
So will I not promise you;
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold the die uncast,
Free to come as free to go;
For I cannot know your past,
And of mine what can you know?

You, so warm, may once have been

Warmer towards another one;
I, so cold, may once have seen
Sunlight, once have felt the sun:
Who shall show us if it was
Thus indeed in time of old?
Fades the image from the glass
And the fortune is not told.

If you promised, you might grieve

For lost liberty again;
If I promised, I believe
I should fret to break the chain:
Let us be the friends we were,
Nothing more but nothing less;
Many thrive on frugal fare
Who would perish of excess.

Complete the commentary below by filling in the blank with the

ONE most appropriate word from the poem. Then, explain what
the underlined part means. Do NOT copy more than TWO
consecutive words from the poem.

<Commentary>

In the poem the speaker tells the man, “Promise me no

promises.” She is unwilling to be committed to the man,
suggesting that they should remain as____________.
4. "Mutability”

The flower that smiles today

Tomorrow dies;
All that we wish to stay,
Tempts and then flies.
What is this world’s delight?
Lightning that mocks the night,
Brief even as bright.

Virtue, how frail it is!

Friendship how rare!
Love, how it sells poor bliss
For proud despair!
But we, though soon they fall,
Survive their joy and all
Which ours we call.

Whilst skies are blue and bright,

Whilst flowers are gay,
Whilst eyes that change ere night
Make glad the day,
Whilst yet the calm hours creep,
Dream thou—and from thy sleep
Then wake to weep
Complete the statement by filling in the blank with the ONE
most appropriate word from the poem.

One theme in the poem is that all good things in life

come to an end, and as a result, we are left with
the feeling of __________.