Craft and StructureVery hardTwo views on a poet's late work
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The poet's late work is a decline: the forms loosen, the rhymes go, the lines sprawl.
Text 2
The poet's late work abandons rhyme and metre deliberately, as her letters make plain. To call the result a decline is to judge it by the rules it set out to break.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?
- A. Text 2 rejects the judgement in Text 1 on the grounds that it applies standards the poet intentionally abandoned.Correct
- B. Text 2 agrees that the late work is weaker.
- C. Text 2 denies that the late work abandons rhyme.
- D. Text 2 argues that the letters are forgeries.
Answer: A. Text 2 rejects the judgement in Text 1 on the grounds that it applies standards the poet intentionally abandoned.
Judged by rules she rejected.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Text 2 agrees that the late work is weaker.
- Text 2 rejects the word decline.
- C. Text 2 denies that the late work abandons rhyme.
- Text 2 says it abandons rhyme deliberately.
- D. Text 2 argues that the letters are forgeries.
- The letters are cited as evidence.
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