lesson 20 John Masefield课后题答案.docVIP

2. Reader and purpose 1. 1) Masefield’s traits can be described as follows: a) A man who keeps his words. b) The dominant quality of humility. c) Full of poetic quality in his seeing and doing things… This quality can be best illustrated by two things: (1) His comment on seeing Oxford from the windows of his house over the hills and valleys about eight miles out of Oxford: --- “Oxford is always different.” ---“Always I see her in a new mood of beauty from these hills.” (2) His cleverness with his hands. Masefield is not only a literary genius, but also clever with his hands. He will, with complacency, make a model of a ship or mend a garden gate. When his model of a ship is done, it will satisfy the most ardent technician, yet it has a grace and a poetry that only masefield, a great poet, can give it. d) his kindness and generosity to his friends He spent weeks and weeks of labor to make a model of a ship to please a friend who had been kind to him 2) Mr. Nichols conveys these characteristics to us by facts. 3) No, he doesn’t 2.1) The writer’s own values revealed in the text are as follows: He was a witness of all the facts cited in the text. This is shown in such sentences as “A few weeks later I met Masefield himself”; “I saw a great deal of him after that.” 2) As an Oxford undergraduate, he respects and admires Masefield. He sincerely wants to learn the essence of poetry from him. 3) Yes, he does. From the text we can clearly see that the writer takes the literary society and his friend seriously. For example, when they knew that Masefield had promised to come, “We all assembled in my rooms to await his arrival.” And when Masefield had finished reading his poems and finished his speech, “we begin to discuss what he said, all talking at the top of our voices…, with a great deal of enthusiasm. 3. Sentences 1) The writer has organized his ideas here into three sentences because each sentence express a main thought. The first sentence tells us Masefield’s promis