MINISTERUL EDUCAIEI I CERCETRII

OLIMPIADA DE LIMBA ENGLEZ

FAZA PE JUDE/ MUNICIPIUL BUCURETI, 26 FEBRUARIE 2005
CLASA a XII-a
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Read:
Stephanos
1
Dedalos! Bous
2
Stephanoumenos
3
! Bous Stephaneforos
4
!
Their banter was not new to him and now it flattered his mild proud sovereignty !ow"
as never before" his strange name seemed to him a prophesy So timeless seemed the grey
warm air" so fluid and impersonal his own mood" that all ages were as one to him # moment
before the ghost of the an$ient %ingdom of the Danes had loo%ed forth through the vesture of
the ha&ewrapped $ity !ow" at the name of the fabulous artifi$er" he seemed to hear the
noise of dim waves and to see a winged form flying above the waves and slowly $limbing the
air 'hat did it mean( 'as it a )uaint devi$e opening a page of some medieval boo% of
prophe$ies and symbols" a haw%li%e man flying sunward above the sea" a prophe$y of the
end he had been born to serve and had been following through the mists of $hildhood and
boyhood" a symbol of the artist forging anew in his wor%shop out of the sluggish matter of the
earth a new soaring impalpable imperishable being(
*is heart trembled+ his breath $ame faster and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as
though he were soaring sunward *is heart trembled in an e$stasy of fear and his soul was in
flight *is soul was soaring in an air beyond the world and the body he %new was purified in a
breath and delivered of in$ertitude and made radiant and $ommingled with the element of the
spirit #n e$stasy of flight made radiant his eyes and wild his breath and tremulous and wild
and radiant his windswept limbs
,-ne! Two!.oo% out!
,-" $ripes" /0m drownded!
,-ne! Two! Three and away!
,1e ne2t! 1e ne2t!
,-ne!3%!
,Stephaneforos!
*is throat a$hed with a desire to $ry aloud" the $ry of a haw% or eagle on high" to $ry
pier$ingly of his deliveran$e to the winds This was the $all of life to his soul not the dull gross
voi$e of the world of duties and despair" not the inhuman voi$e that had $alled him to the
pale servi$e of the altar #n instant of wild flight had delivered him and the $ry of triumph
whi$h his lips withheld $left his brain
,Stephaneforos!
This excerpt is a key moment in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the novel by James
Joyce. It is Stephens final recognition of what his true role in life is to be.
Write a !"#wor$ essay on the consciousness of the artist in the making as reveale$ in this fragment.
%efer to&
The significance of the title an$ its relationship to the fragment ' focus on the use of articles
in the title(
The portrait of the artist as it appears in this excerpt
)iterary $evices use$ to convey meaning& rhetorical $evices, poetic $evices, use of myth,
symbols, etc.
The narrative techni*ue use$ by Joyce to give verbal imitations of mental processes
language as the metaphoric e*uivalent for feelings an$ experiences
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Stephanos' ,reek(- crown
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/ous',reek(-bull
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Stephanoumenos' ,reek(- crowne$

Stephaneforos ' ,reek(- carrying a crown

Write a ""#wor$ essay on& Love, Youth and Wisdom.
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