Compared with his dramatic works，Yeats’s poems attract much admiring notice.The subject matter includes love，nature，history，time and aging.Though Yeats generally relied on very traditional forms，he brought modern sensibility to them.As his literary life progressed，his poetry grew finer and richer，which led him to worldwide recognition.

　　He had not enjoyed a major public lift since winning the Nobel Prize in 1923.Yet，he continued writing almost to the end of his life.Had Yeats stopped writing at age 40，he would probably now be valued as a minor poet，for there is no other example in literary history of a poet who produces his greatest works between the ages of 50 and 75.After Yeats’s death in 1939，W.H.Auden wrote，among others，the following lines：

　　Earth，receive an honoured guest：

　　William Yeats is laid to rest.

　　Let the Irish vessel (船) lie

　　Emptied of its poetry.

　　71.What is the passage mainly about?

　　A．Yeats’s literary achievements.

　　B．Yeats’s historical influence.

　　C．Yeats’s artistic ambition.

　　D．Yeats’s national honor.

　　解析　主旨大意题。文章主要介绍了William Butler Yeats的文学成就。

　　考题印证

　　A

　　(2011·山东卷·A)Arthur Miller(1915－2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century.Miller’s father had moved to the USA from Austria­Hungary，drawn like so many others by the “Great American Dream”．However，he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early 1930s.

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