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The close relationship between poetry and music scarcely needs to be argued.
The close relationship between poetry and music scarcely needs to be argued.
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2024-04-23
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The close relationship between poetry and music scarcely needs to be argued. Both are aural modes which employ rhythm, rime and pitch as major devices; to those the one adds linguistic meaning, connotation and various traditional figures, and
the other
can add, at least in theory, all of these plus harmony, counterpoint and orchestration techniques. In English the two are closely bound historically. Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry seems certainly to have been read or chanted to a harpist’s accompaniment; the verb used in Beowulf for such a performance, the Finn episode, is singan, to sing, and the noun gyd, to song. A major source of the lyric tradition in English poetry is the songs of the troubadours.
The distance between the gyd in Beowulf and the songs of "Lenoard Cohen" or "Bob Dylan" may seem great, but is one of time rather than aesthetics. The lyric poem as a literary work and the lyrics of a popular song are both still essentially the same thing: poetry. Whether the title of the work be "Gerontion" or "Hound Dog", our criteria for evaluating the work must remain the same.
The most important prerequisite for both a significant poem and significant lyrics in a popular song is that the writer be faithful to his own personal vision or to the vision of the poem he is writing. Skill and craft for writing poetry are indeed necessary because these are the only means by which a poet can preserve the integrity of this vision in the poem. A poet must not, either because of lack of skill or because of worship of popularity, wealth, or critical acclaim, go outside of his own or his own poem’s vision— on pain of writing only the derivative or the trivial. Historically, the writers and singers of the lyrics of popular songs have seemed often to be incapable of personal vision, and to have confused both originality and morality with a servile compliance to popular taste. [br] The word "prerequisite" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to____.
选项
A、prescription
B、premise
C、preference
D、prediction
答案
B
解析
语义题。原文第三段第一句意为,“好的诗歌和歌词最重要的前提是作者应该忠实于自己的视野和自己创作诗歌的想象力”。选项B“premise”与“prerequisite”(前提,先决条件)为近义词替换。此题也可用排除法,“prescription”(处方)、“preference”(偏好)、“prediction”(预测)代入原文,意思均不符合。
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