20xx考研英語(yǔ)閱讀理解精讀100篇04-在線瀏覽
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【正文】 well, who died in 1977 at the age of 60, addressed the world head on. By contrast, Mr Ashbery, who celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this year, glances wryly at the world and its absurdities. In this edition of his later poems, a substantial gathering of verses selected from six volumes published over the past 20 years, his poetry does not so much consist of themes to be explored as ic routines to be improvised. He mocks the very idea of the gravity of poetry itself. His tone can be alarmingly inconsequential, as if the reader is there to be perpetually wrongfooted. He shifts easily from the elevated to the workaday. His poems are endlessly digressive and there are often echoes of other poets in his writings, though these always e lightly at the reader, as though they were scents on the breeze. Lowell wrote in strict formal measures。2020 考研英語(yǔ)閱讀理解精讀 100 篇（ 4） TEXT 4 Just as Norman Mailer, John Updike and Philip Roth were at various times regarded as the greatest American novelist since the second world war, John Ashbery and Robert Lowell vied for the title of greatest American poet. Yet the two men could not be more different. Lowell was a public figure who engaged with politics—in 1967 he marched shouldertoshoulder with Mailer in protest against the Vietnam war, as described in Mailer39。s novel “The Armies of the Night”. Lowell took on substantial themes and envisioned himself as a tragic, heroic figure, fighting against his own demons. Mr Ashbery39。 some of his last books consisted of entire sequences of sons. Mr Ashbery can also be partial to particular forms of verse, though these tend to be of a fairly eccentric kind—the cento (a patchwork of other poets39。s stockintrade, but he seems to single them out in order to send up the very idea of the simile in poetry, as in “Violets blossomed loudly/ like a swear word in an empty tank”. Life, for Lowell, was a serious matter, just as he was a serious man. Mr Ashbery39。s, his poems are neither autobiographical no
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