【单选题】
{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} There are 4 reading passages in this part.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices markedA,B,C, andD、You should decide on the best choice and mark your answer on theANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets.
Lycidas is not an expression of personal grief ( personal grief was to be eloquent in Milton’s next important poem, the LatinEpitaphiumDamonis), but rather a record of the thoughts that King’s death evoked in the poet. King had written verses himself and had prepared himself for theChurch. These two facts of the dead man’s career form the basis for what Milton had to say. Outwardly the poem is written in the tradition of pastoral poetry, and more particularly in the tradition of the pastoral elegy as exhibited in the ancient Greek Lament forBion by Moschus. The poet is spoken of as a shepherD、But Milton introduces the innovation of identifying theChristian idea of shepherd (pastor) as meaning priest. In a wonderful fusion of pagan andChristian tradition, Milton makes his elegy the occasion for a scathing attack on the corruptions of the clergy in his time, with parenthetical thrusts of scorn at his trivial contemporaries, theCavalier poets.
Samuel Johnson, who disliked all pastoral poetry, made the one outstandingly foolish judgment of his career, in dismissing Lycidas as a work of an. He said its "diction is harsh, the rhymes uncertain, and the numbers unpleasing, "--a testimony of the fact that Johnson was deaf to the refinements ofEnglish poetry at its subtlest, for Lycidas is an exquisite piece of music from the first line through the last. Moreover, Johnson was upset at the mingling of "trifling fictions" with "the most awful and sacred truths, such as ought never to be polluted with such irreverent combinations." That pronouncement can only mean that Johnson failed to grasp the noble idea at the center of the poem: Milton’s definition of the high function of a poet.
B．he made a foolish judgment
C、it was a pastoral poem
D．he was not a friend ofEdward King
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
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