《英美文学选读》是本科阶段英语语言文学专业的必修课。该课程涉及作家、作品繁多,文学流派纷杂,常令考生无所适从。选读中的诗歌因其古涩、凝练的语言,多样化的表现形式而成为难中之最,让无数考生望而却步。而通过对2002年至2004年的《英美文学选读》试题进行统计,我们发现学 Selected Readings of British and American Literature is a required course for undergraduate English language and literature majors. The curriculum involves writers, works, and literary genres that often make candidates at a loss. Selected poems have become the most difficult because of their ancient, concise language and diversified forms of expression, leaving countless candidates discouraged. Through the statistics of the “British and American Literature Selected Readings” from 2002 to 2004, we found that