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The poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906) was the premier Black writer of poetry that used the dialect of rural African American

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问题     The poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906) was the premier Black writer of poetry that used the dialect of rural African American of the southern United States. Although Dunbar’s works were both popular with readers and acclaimed by literary critics during his lifetime, after the First World War a radical shift occurred, at least in critical opinion of his poetry, and twentieth-century critical evaluation of his work has been generally negative. Some critics attacked his work on social grounds for failing to challenge plantation stereotypes of African Americans. Other critics, such as the post James Weldon Johnson, argued from aesthetic grounds that dialect poetry in general was too limited as an artistic medium, and capable of producing only two effects: pathos and humor. The negative critical trend only began to reverse itself in the 1970s, when scholars began to emphasize the importance of mythic, psychological, and historical dimensions of Dunbar’s works, focusing on the interior and exterior realities of African American life after the Civil War.
Which of the following general criticisms of dialect poetry is mentioned in the passage?
选项 A、Dialect poetry too often uses only the dialect of African Americans living in rural areas of the southern United States.
B、Dialect poetry is highly limited in the number of artistic effects it can produce.
C、Dialect poetry fails to represent mythic, psychological, and historical dimensions of experience
D、The use of dialect in poetry tends to perpetuate plantation stereotypes of African Americans.
E、The use of dialect in poetry has only a limited degree of popular appeal.
答案B
解析 本题考查的是对方言诗歌的批判，因此定位到二到四句。选项B对应第四句，正确。A项文章并没有针对方言诗歌描述的地域范围进行批判。C项在第五句对方言诗歌给出正评价的时候，认为方言诗歌表达了神秘等维度。
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