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Comment on Darwin’s Biography of Copy of Verse Body Biographies can be wearisome contrivances , often too long and too detai
Comment on Darwin’s Biography of Copy of Verse Body Biographies can be wearisome contrivances , often too long and too detai
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Comment on Darwin’s Biography of Copy of Verse Body
Biographies can be wearisome contrivances , often too long and too detailed for their own good. Biographers make the mistake of spending too much time worshipping their subjects. Think of the authoritative three-volume life of Robert Frost by Lawrence Thompson, for example, and how the biographer passed, over the many years of. its making, from hero worship to intense dislike of the poet he shadowed for almost a quarter of a century. Yes, too long and intense an acquaintance can lead to sourness.
As the bicentunary of Charles Darwin’s birth on February 12th approaches, it is good to welcome a biography which is relatively small, but in no way superficial or meager. Ruth Padel has achieved this feat by writing her great-great-grandfather’s life in a sequence of often quite short poems. Through her verses she seeks to capture the "voice" of Darwin. Ms Padel embeds many of Darwin’s own words—from his books or his letters—in her poems, and the results tend to give the sense of being jointly authored. Sometimes she shapes entire pieces of quotation into her own poetic passages. If this seems to be a bit of sly plagiarism, it doesn’t feel like it. It feels more like a skillful act of collaboration between the living and the dead, one melding easily with the other.
Why does this book work so well? How does it manage to say so much in so few words? Ms Padel seems to have caught the essence of the man’s character, as if in a butterfly net. She enters into his cast of mind, bringing across his hyper-sensitivity, his sense of fragility, his lifelong boldness, and the poems are a sequence of snapshots— often small, intermittent and delicately ima-gistic—of particularly crucial incidents in his life; of moments of intellectual illumination.
It is not easy to describe a whole life in relatively few words. You need to find some way of filling in the background. Ms Padel has overcome this problem by having paragraphs of notes run, in a single column, beside the texts of the poems so that they can be read side by side.
And why are poems a good way of illuminating a life such as Darwin’s? The best lyric poems—think of Keats or Shelley, for example—are moments of sudden insight. And Darwin, throughout, was in the grip of something very similar: a terrible, destabilizing sense of wonder. He sensed hints of the marvelous everywhere he looked. All the sadder then —and this is something that Ms Padel does not explain—that, later in life, the man who carried with him on the Beagle Channel a copy of Milton’s "Paradise Lost" found that he could no longer enjoy poetry.
Charles Darwin’s biography by Ruth Padel______.
选项
A、quoted many of Ruth’s books and letters
B、used Darwin’s own poetic passages
C、plagiarized the entire pieces of other biographies
D、feels like a joint work by the author and the subject
答案
D
解析
事实细节题。根据Ruth Padel可定位至第二段。文中说“好像是她和达尔文合写的一样”、“更像是生者和逝者的完美合奏”,因此可知D项正确。帕德尔引用的是达尔文的作品,而不是她自己的作品,因此A项错误;B项说引用了达尔文的诗歌,但文中只是说他的著作和书信中的话语被引用到帕德尔的诗歌中,因此B项也排除;C项说抄袭了其他传记作者的作品,不符合文意,因为文中指出,如果有抄袭嫌疑的话,抄袭的也是达尔文的作品,因此C项错误。
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