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Although he rejected the prevailing Neo-Romanticism of the late forties and early fifties, Philip Larkin was no admirer of modernism. Like many in the English middle-class, for example, he thought Picasso a fake, and believed that an artist should "•make a horse look like a horse.
When some disparaged his work as "•limited"– and "•commonplace, Larkin replied, "•I'd like to know what dragon-infested world these lads live in to make them so free with the word commonplace'. His irritation stemmed from his view that poetry "•was an act of sanity, of seeing things as they are. He thought that the connection between poetry and the reading public, forged in the 19th century by such poets as Kipling, Housman and Brooke, had by the mid-20th century been destroyed by the growing unintelligibility of English poetry to the general reader. He attributed this in part to the emergence of English literature (along with the other arts) as an academic subject, demanding poetry that required elucidation.
The author quotes Larkin as saying "•"I'd like to know what dragon-infested world these lads live in to make them so free with the word commonplace" in order to:
A. show how Larkin dismissed critics of his work by pointing out their personal failings.
B. show how Larkin mocked his critics for implying that everyday experience must be trivial.
C. suggest that Larkin's critics attacked his work to make their own lives seem more glamorous.
D. show that Larkin did not believe that the events he wrote about were actually common.
E. show how deeply saddened Larkin was at the criticism of his work
1) Can we discuss how such questions are approached?
2) Which one you will pick and why
When some disparaged his work as "•limited"– and "•commonplace, Larkin replied, "•I'd like to know what dragon-infested world these lads live in to make them so free with the word commonplace'. His irritation stemmed from his view that poetry "•was an act of sanity, of seeing things as they are. He thought that the connection between poetry and the reading public, forged in the 19th century by such poets as Kipling, Housman and Brooke, had by the mid-20th century been destroyed by the growing unintelligibility of English poetry to the general reader. He attributed this in part to the emergence of English literature (along with the other arts) as an academic subject, demanding poetry that required elucidation.
The author quotes Larkin as saying "•"I'd like to know what dragon-infested world these lads live in to make them so free with the word commonplace" in order to:
A. show how Larkin dismissed critics of his work by pointing out their personal failings.
B. show how Larkin mocked his critics for implying that everyday experience must be trivial.
C. suggest that Larkin's critics attacked his work to make their own lives seem more glamorous.
D. show that Larkin did not believe that the events he wrote about were actually common.
E. show how deeply saddened Larkin was at the criticism of his work
1) Can we discuss how such questions are approached?
2) Which one you will pick and why
