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  3. “Blues is for singing,” writes folk musicologist Paul Oliver, and “is not a

“Blues is for singing,” writes folk musicologist Paul Oliver, and “is not a

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问题      “Blues is for singing,” writes folk musicologist Paul Oliver, and “is not a form of folk song that stands up particularly well when written down.” A poet who wants to write blues can attempt to avoid this problem by poeticizing the form—but literary blues tend to read like bad poetry rather than like refined folk song. For Oliver, the true spirit of the blues inevitably eludes the self-conscious imitator. However, Langston Hughes, the first writer to grapple with these difficulties of blue poetry, in fact succeeded in producing poems that capture the quality of genuine, performed blues while remaining effective as poems. In inventing blues poetry, Hughes solved two problems: first, how to write blues lyrics in such a way that they work on the printed page, and second, how to exploit the blues form poetically without losing all sense of authenticity.
    There are many styles of blues, but the distinction of importance to Hughes is between the genres referred to as “folk blues” and “classic blues.” Folk blues and classic blues are distinguished from one another by differences in performers (local talents versus touring professionals), patronage (local community versus mass audience), creation (improvised versus composed), and transmission (oral versus written). It has been a commonplace among critics that Hughes adopted the classic blues as the primary model for his blues poetry, and that he writes his best blues poetry when he tries least to imitate the folk blues. In this view, Hughes’ attempts to imitate the folk blues are too self-conscious, too determined to romanticize the African American experience, too intent on reproducing what he takes to be the quaint humor and naïve simplicity of the folk blues to be successful.
    But a more realistic view is that by conveying his perceptions as a folk artist ought to—through an accumulation of details over the span of his blues oeuvre, rather than by overloading each poem with quaintness and naivety–Hughes made his most important contributions to the genre. His blues poems are in fact closer stylistically to the folk blues on which he modeled them than to the cultivated classic blues. Arnold Rampersad has observed that virtually all of the poems in the 1927 collection in which Hughes essentially originated blues poetry fall deliberatively within the “range of utterance” of common folk. This surely applies to “Young Gal’s Blues”, in which Hughes avoids the conventionally “poetic” language and images that the subjects of death and love sometimes elicit in his ordinary lyric poetry. To see what Hughes’ blues poetry might have been like if he had truly adopted the classic blues as his model, one need only look to “Golden Brown Blues”, a song lyric Hughes wrote for composer W. C. Handy. Its images, allusions, and diction are conspicuously remote from the common “range of utterance”. [br] The author of the passage uses the highlighted quotation primarily to
选项 A、indicate how blues poetry should be performed
B、highlight the difficulties faced by writers of blues poetry
C、support the idea that blues poetry is a genre doomed to fail
D、illustrate the obstacles that blues poetry is unable to overcome
E、suggest that written forms of blues are less authentic than sung blues
答案 B
解析 本题属于功能题，定位句3s版本“布鲁斯只能唱，不能写”。该题的几个选项差异较小，需要仔细区分。difficulties指的是“布鲁斯只能唱，不能写”，正确。A项“诗歌”已经是书面化的了，本身无法被“表演”，因此选项A的内容本身就是自相矛盾的。C项不符，原因有三个：a. doomed to fail太极端，从文章中看不出来。b.文章从来没说布鲁斯诗歌是一个genre。c.根据第一段前两句的内容，第二句是用来支持第一句的，而非反过来。黑体部分只能用来说明布鲁斯不能写，但是不能用来“支持”布鲁斯诗歌会失败这一观点。D项保罗.奥利弗说出这句话只是说明写下布鲁斯会面临困难，但是他本身没表明这些困难不能被克服。E项文中没有比较真实性。
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