首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Being with Seamus Heaney was like being with two people at once. On the one hand, he was noble, statesmanlike, slightly formidab
Being with Seamus Heaney was like being with two people at once. On the one hand, he was noble, statesmanlike, slightly formidab
admin
2015-08-26
43
问题
Being with Seamus Heaney was like being with two people at once. On the one hand, he was noble, statesmanlike, slightly formidable: That monumental head could happily have taken its place among the classical emperors that ring the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. On the other, with his shambling gait(蹒跚步态), unruly hair and bred-in-the-bone jocundity(欢乐), he remained always the farmer’s son from Co. Deny.
I met him first nearly 20 years ago, when I interviewed him for Harpers & Queen on the publication of " Seeing Things". He spoke about the duty he felt to respond to letters from admirers, and of how this maddened his wife— "Marie always says, ’ For God’s sake!’ , but the relationship between one’s ethical commands and one’s whole reality is very complex. " He reflected on the need sometimes for a poet to be political, and stern: "Sometimes it’s immoral not to put the boot in and cause a bit of bother: sometimes acquiescence(默认)is a failure. " He mused on his Catholic upbringing which—though he was no longer a churchgoer—had left him feeling he had "a right to joy".
Ahead of the interview, I’d been terrified of getting out of my depth, so as well as buying all Heaney’s poetry: I’d bought a volume of A-level notes on his work. When we’d finished speaking, he offered to sign the books and, to my horror, at the bottom of the tower, he discovered my notes. He roared with laughter. I laughed too. We parted on the merriest terms.
But that evening, when he gave a reading at the Royal Society of Literature, he was recollected, and grave. Demonstrating Ted Hughes’s belief that "poetry derives from the place of ultimate suffering and decision" , he recited "Mid-Term Break" , about the tragic death of his younger brother, aged four:
" In the porch I met my father crying—"
We were brought together again by another poet, and mutual friend, George Mackay Brown. Embarking on Brown’s biography, I wrote to Heaney to ask whether he might share his memories and thoughts. He responded with a fax I will treasure forever: four pages of precise, perfectly turned reflections that I stitched through my book like golden thread.
Then, last September, Heaney gave a reading in Stirling. He allowed me to interview him for "Seven Wonders" , speaking in rich, graceful sentences that made their way unedited from the recorder to the page. At a dinner in his honour, he told us how thrilled he’d been by the neighbouring farmer who dropped in to see him after he returned from receiving the Nobel Prize. "Ah, Seamus," the farmer said. "Welcome home. And congratulations on the winnings!"
At the reading itself, he seemed frail, but radiant. He spoke of his desire "to rise up and make poetry move—to make art and humanity worth something".
Then there were questions. A Stirling student, as awkward and shy as my 20-something self, asked whether Heaney had anything interesting left to say, now that he was so old. Unabashed, and twinkling with amusement, Heaney referred him to his early poem "Digging". "I might not have too much more digging ahead," he admitted, "but I hope there’s a good bit of hoeing". If only there had been more.
We can infer from the end of the passage that______.
选项
A、a poet is usually insightful of and enthusiastic about life
B、Seamus Heaney felt offended by the Stirling student’s question
C、hoeing is a job requiring more physical labor than digging
D、at an old age, Seamus Heaney hoped to contribute more to poetry creation
答案
D
解析
推断题。根据最后一段,在读者问及他已如此年老还有什么话想与大家分享的时候,诗人Seamus Heaney打趣说自己已不能再“深挖地”了,但还可以“用锄头锄地”,表达了对自己晚年诗歌创作的期许,[D]表述正确,故为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/U3XK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
________peoplewerekilledintheIsraelandPalestineclashes.
Fatcannotchangeintomuscle______musclechangesintofat.(1999年考试真题)
Themeditationbeginsinawaythatsurprisesmanypeople,becauseitstartsbycultivatinglovingfeelingtowardyourself.Yet
It’sgettingratherlate.It’stimewe______.
"Congratulations,Mr.Cooper,it’sagirl."Fatherhoodisgoingtohaveadifferentmeaningand【31】adifferentresponsefro
"Congratulations,Mr.Cooper,it’sagirl."Fatherhoodisgoingtohaveadifferentmeaningand【31】adifferentresponsefro
InarecentbookentitledThePsychicLifeofInsects,ProfessorBouviersaysthatwemustbecarefulnottocreditthelittlew
ThepurposeofMagellan’sexpeditionwas______.
随机试题
阅读《报刘一丈书》中的一段文字,然后回答下列问题。且今之所谓“孚”者何哉?日夕策马候权者之门。门者故不入,则甘言媚词,作妇人状,袖金以私之。即门者持刺入,而主者又不即出见,立厩中仆马之间,恶气袭衣袖,即饥寒毒热不可忍,不去也。抵暮,则前所受赠金者出,报客
HLA-Ⅰ类分子轻链编码基因位于
患者,男,59岁。上下牙列缺失,7健,近中舌侧倾斜,牙槽嵴丰满,上颌散在骨尖,间距离正常。7最宜用哪种卡环
作为有限合伙人的自然人在有限合伙企业存续期间丧失民事行为能力的,属于当然退伙。()
国学大师说,儒家尚正气,道家尚清气,佛家尚和气,请你谈谈对这句话的理解。
2012年福布斯全球企业前十强中,员工人均创造利润超过10万美元的有几个?
μC/OS-II是目前常用的嵌入式操作系统之一,其内核只提供__________【69】调度、任务间通信与同步、任务管理、时间管理和__________【70】管理等基本功能,资源消耗非常小。
安全性保护是防止用户对数据库的非法使用。现有下列措施:Ⅰ.用户身份鉴别Ⅱ.权限控制Ⅲ.视图机制Ⅳ.双机热备上述措施中和安全性保护相关的是()。
在VisualFoxPro中通过建立主索引或候选索引来实现______完整性约束。
A、Heiscurious.B、Heisimpatient.C、Heisexhausted.D、Heissatisfied.B预读选项可知,问的是男士的感受。等了半个多小时还没有上菜,男士说自己快要饿死了,显然他在餐厅里面等得很不耐
最新回复
(
0
)