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Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 The poem is needlessly obscure; three readings left me unsure what it was about. Text 2 The poem withholds its subject on purpose, so that the reader arrives at it, as the speaker did, only in the last line. The obscurity is the experience it describes.

Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?

  1. A. Text 2 accepts that the poem is obscure but argues that the obscurity is deliberate and meaningful.Correct
  2. B. Text 2 denies that the poem is hard to understand.
  3. C. Text 2 agrees that the poem is needlessly obscure.
  4. D. Text 2 argues that the poem has no subject.

Answer: A. Text 2 accepts that the poem is obscure but argues that the obscurity is deliberate and meaningful.

Obscure on purpose.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. Text 2 denies that the poem is hard to understand.
Text 2 calls it obscure.
C. Text 2 agrees that the poem is needlessly obscure.
Text 2 finds a purpose.
D. Text 2 argues that the poem has no subject.
The subject arrives in the last line.

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