The poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks has been praised for deepening the significance of personal and social experiences so that these

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问题     The poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks has been praised for deepening the significance of personal and social experiences so that these experiences become universal in their implication. She has also been praised for her "sense of form, which is basic and remarkable". Many of her poems are concerned with a Black community named Bronzeville, on the south side of Chicago. Her literary skill makes Bronzeville more than just a place on a map. This community, like all important literary places (Robinson’s Tilbury Town and Masters’ Spoon River, for example), becomes a testing ground of personality, a place where the raw material of experience is shaped by imagination and where the joys and trials of being human are both sung and judged. The qualities for which Brooks’s poetry is noted are (as one critic has pointed out) "boldness, invention, a daring to experiment, and a naturalness that does not scorn literature but absorbs it".
    Her love for poetry began early. At the age of seven, she "began to put rhymes together", and when she was thirteen, one of her poems was published in a children’s magazine. During her teens she contributed more than seventy-five poems to a Chicago newspaper. In 1941 she began to attend a class in writing poetry at the South Side Community Art Center, and several years later, her poems began to appear in Poetry and other magazines. Her first collection of poems. A Street in Bronzeville was published in 1945. Four years later, Annie Allen, her second collection of poems, appeared. In 1950, Annie Allen was awarded a Pulitzer prize for poetry. A novel, Maud Martha, about a young Black girl growing up in Chicago, published in 1953, was praised for its warmth and insights. In 1963, her Selected Poems appeared.  
The author uses quotations in the first paragraph primarily to ______.

选项 A、help describe Brooks’s poetry
B、introduce biographical information about Brooks
C、present opposing points of view about Brooks’s work
D、state little-known facts about Brooks’s novel

答案A

解析 作者在第一自然段中用引号主要是为了帮助描述布鲁克斯的诗歌。第一段中的引号部分是人们对布鲁克斯的诗歌的评价,作者引用这些评价,是为了让读者对布鲁克斯的诗歌有更深刻的了解。
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