[单项选择]______ was the most popular American poet of this century. At the age of 87, he was invited to read a poem at the inauguration of President Kennedy.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Frost
C. Ｅ.Ｅ. Cummings
D. Carl Sandburg

[单项选择]______ was the most popular American poet of 20th century. At the age of 87, he was invited to read a poem at the inauguration of President Kennedy.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Frost
C. E.E. Cummings
D. Carl Sandburg

[单项选择]American humor and American popular heroes were born together, The first popular heroes of the new nation were comic heroes, and the first popular humor of the new nation was the antics of its hero-clowns. The heroic and the comic were combined in novel American proportions in popular literature.
The heroic themes are obvious enough and not much different from those in the legends of other times and places: Achilles, Beowulf, Siegfried, Roland, and King Arthur. The American Davy Crockett legends repeat the familiar pattern of the Old World heroic story: the pre-eminence of a mighty hero whose fame in myth has a tenuous basis in fact; the remarkable birth and precocious strength of the hero; single combats in which he distinguished himself against antagonists, both man and beast; vows and boasts; pride of the hero in his weapons, his dog, and his woman.
Davy Crockett conquered man and beast with a swaggering nonchalance. He overcame animals by force of body and will. He ki
A. American popular literature was based on the legends of other times and places.
B. American popular heroes were characteristically comic.
C. Davy Crockett wrote humorous stories about mastering the nature.
D. The Davy Crockett stories reflected the adventurous spirit of early America.

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