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[D] the world should go on its path for a bright future. 3. Which one of the following is NOT the characteristics of Ashbery’s poetry? [A] Some lines are borrowed from the other poets’ works. [B] Stanzas are different from each other in one poem. [C] Words are scattered casually in his poetry. [D] Tones are continuously changing from the highbrow to the mon. 4. Mr. Ashbery’s similes in poetry are different from that of the other poets in that_____. [A] he likes to single them out. [B] he uses them in an eccentric way. [C] he uses simile for simile. [D] he uses simile to express his plex thought. 5. Why the author think the question Ashbery raised is a tougher one for a poet than we might think? [A] Because a poet looks at things in a very plicated way. [B] Because a poet takes life seriously. [C] Because this question is a difficult one. [D] Because the theme of life is worth thinking for a poet. 篇章剖析: 這篇文章介紹了美國詩人 Ashbery 和其詩歌的特點,文章雖然是以兩個詩人對比的形式寫作的,但是卻對 Ashbery 著墨偏多,另外一個詩人洛厄爾只是一個陪襯而已。s approach, as evinced by his poetry, is more that of a gentle shrug of amused bewilderment. Unlike Lowell39。 works), for example, and the pantoum (a Malaysian form, said to have been introduced to 19thcentury Europe by Victor Hugo). Often he writes in a freeflowing, conversational manner that depends for its success upon the fact that the ending of lines is untrammelled by any concern about whether or not they scan. Within many of his poems, there often seems to be a gently humorous antagonism between one stanza and the next. Mr Ashbery likes using similes in his poetry. This is often the poet39。s verse, by contrast, is more beguilingly casual. In his hands, the making of a poem can feel like the tumbling of dice on a table top. Visible on the page is a delicately playful strewing of words, looking to engage with each other in a shyly puzzled fashion. And there is an element of Dadalike play in his unpredictability of address with its perpetual shifting of tones. Lo