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VI. Reading ComprehensionAmong the leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance,Countee Cullen is the writer whose role in that movement ismost difficult to assess. This difficulty arises in part because hispoetry emulates the style and tone of nineteenth century EnglishRomanticism, but real complexity concerns his choice of subjectmatter.Cullen entered Harvard in 1925, to pursue a master inEnglish, about the same time his collections of poems, Color,was published. Written in a careful, traditional style, the workcelebrated black beauty and deplored the effects of racism.Cullen insisted on the freedom of the Black point to choose anysubject: he believed that a restricted concern with race was ahindrance to the development of the Black artist, and he claimedthat there is poetry written by Blacks, but not a linguisticcategory that could be called Black poetry.Yet he was quick to add that for the Black poet, escapingawareness of race was impossible, and Cullen was always insome way writing about being Black. By suffusing anessentially European literary tradition with race consciousness,Cullen in his own way succeeded in doing what other writers ofthe Harlem Renaissance were doing by experimenting withBlack folk forms: making a lasting contribution to the growth ofa distinctive African American voice.
47. The passage is primarily concerned with
(A) examining the relationship between poetic style andsubstance
(B) drawing distinction between two kinds of poetry
(C) discussing a poet’s place in a literary movement
(D) describing the origins of a literary movement

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答案：C
難度：適中0.615385
統計：A(6),B(6),C(40),D(10),E(0)

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