In width of scope, Yeats far exceeds
any of his contemporaries. He is the only poet since the 18th century who has
been a public man in his own country and the only poet since Milton who has been
a public man at a time when his country was involved in a struggle for political
liberty. This may not seem an important matter, but it is a question whether the
kind of life lived by poets for the last two hundred years or so has not been
one great reason for the drift of poetry away from the life of the community as
a whole, and the loss of touch with tradition. Once the life of contemplation
has been divorced from the life of action, or from real knowledge of men of
action, something is lost which it is difficult to define, but which leaves
poetry enfeebled and incomplete. Yeats responded with all his heart as a young
man to the reality and the romance of Ireland A. The Basis of True Poetry B. The Necessity of Culture C. Action Versus Contemplation D. Yeats as a Poet and Patriot [单项选择]In width of scope, Yeats far exceeds any of his contemporaries. He is the only poet since the 18th century who has been a public man in his own country and the only poet since Milton who has been a public man at a time when his country was involved in a struggle for political liberty. This may not seem an important matter, but it is a question whether the kind of life lived by poets for the last two hundred years or so has not been one great reason for the drift of poetry away from the life of the community as a whole, and the loss of touch with tradition. Once the life of contemplation has been divorced from the life of action, or from real knowledge of men of action, something is lost which it is difficult to define, but which leaves poetry enfeebled and incomplete. Yeats responded with all his heart as a young man to the reality and the romance of Ireland’s struggle but he lived to be completely disillusioned about the value of the Irish rebellion. He saw his dreams of liberty blott
A. The Basis of True Poetry B. The Necessity of Culture C. Action Versus Contemplation D. Yeats as a Poet and Patriot [简答题]I appreciate his explanation for he _____________ (能洞察教育制度的问题).
[单项选择]He will never be bullied into any change of his
A. status. B. standpoint. C. sympathy. D. tendency. 我来回答: 提交
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