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NO.45
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本题平均耗时:4分10秒
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正确率:57%

Questions 1 and 2 are based on this passage

Because the subject matter was so personal, the work of several prominent mid-twentieth century poets has been termed “confessional” poetry. But confession is a bad metaphor for what those poets did. The motive for confession is penitential or therapeutic—by speaking openly about personal guilt and suffering, the poet hopes to make them easier to bear. But these poets always approached their writing as artists, and their motive was aesthetic. Writing from experiences like madness, despair, and lust, their aim was to make effective art, not to cure themselves. To treat their poems mainly as documents of personal experience is not just to diminish the poets’ achievement, but to ignore their unanimous disdain for the idea of confessional poetry.

Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.

The author of the passage suggests that applying the term “confessional” to the work of the poets discussed

is mistaken in what it seems to imply about the poets’ motivation

might seem superficially appropriate given the subject matter of the poems

is an error arising from the absence of any other convenient term.

Select one or more answer choices.

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