poet
Our residents here are poor and hospitable. One day, a beggar came and said he was hungry, so we gave him a sumptuous meal. He also asked for a cigarette and didn't leave until we lit it for him.
One afternoon, I just came home from school, and someone stopped me: "Little brother, can I come into your yard?" He is short and well dressed. I asked, "What do you want?" "I want to see your bees."
There are four big palm trees in my yard, and there are bees on them. I ran up the steps and shouted, "Mom, there is a man in the yard. He said he wanted to see bees. " Mom came out, looked him up and down and asked unkindly, "What are you doing?" "I want to see your bees. Thank you, madam. " He spoke slowly and clearly, as if every word he said would cost money.
Me and him, squatting under a palm tree, watching bees together. I said, "What do you do, sir?" "I am a poet. You are a poet, too. Do you like your mother? " "When she doesn't hit me, she just likes it." He stood up and took out a piece of paper from his trouser pocket: "This is a great poem about his mother. I'm going to sell it to you for four cents. "
I ran into the room and said, "Mom, do you want to spend 40 cents on a poem?" "Listen, tell that guy to get out."
I said to the poet, "Mom said she didn't have four cents." "This is what happened to the poet." He doesn't seem to mind. "It's interesting to wander around selling poems like you. Are there many people buying? " "No one has ever bought it." "Then why are you wandering around?" "So I can see a lot of things, and I always hope to meet other poets." "Do you really think I am a poet?" I asked. "You are as talented as I am." He left. I pray to see him again.
One afternoon, on my way home from school, I saw him on the street corner again. "I have been waiting for you for a long time." "Did you sell the poem?" He shook his head and said, "There is a beautiful mango tree in my yard. Now mango is ripe, red, and the juice is thick and sweet. I am waiting for you to treat you to mango. "
The poet lives in a small hut with little furniture and looks desolate. The yard is green and there is a tall mango tree. He's right. Mango juice is thick and sweet. I ate six in a row. Orange mango juice flowed from my mouth to my chin and my shirt was stained with juice.
When I got home, my mother was very angry: "Where are you crazy?" Go and get me a whip! "I ran away from home and vowed never to go back.
I was very angry and ran to the poet's house. He said, "Stop crying and let's go for a walk!" "We took a walk and lay on the lawn watching the stars. He asked me to guess how far away those stars are from us. I did what he said and understood what he meant. For the first time in my life, I felt extremely proud and happy and swept away my anger.
Suddenly, a policeman appeared in front of him. What are you doing here? The poet said, "I have been thinking about this question for more than forty years." The police left without interest.
Since then, the poet and I have always gone for a walk and watched the stars together.
One day, the poet said to me, "I want to tell you an important secret." I am writing a poem, the greatest poem in the world. I have been writing for five years. Write only one line a month and it will be completed in 22 years. ""What was that line written last month? " He looked up at the sky: "The past was profound and wonderful." "This is a beautiful poem." "I hope I can devote all my experience and feelings of a month to this line of poetry and write a poem that shocks all mankind." I exclaimed, "after writing the greatest poem, you will become the richest man in the world, right?" "He didn't answer my question.
I think the poet is getting older every day. One day, I visited him in a small house. He was lying on a small bed, looking old and weak. He said, "The poem is not well written." I felt something keenly, and tears burst out at once. He struggled to sit up, let me sit on his knee, looked me in the eye and said, "Well, as you can see, I always said that you have a pair of poet's eyes." He didn't look sad, so he hugged me to his thin chest and said, "Do you want me to tell you another interesting thing?" I can't say anything. "When I'm finished, you have to promise to go home at once and never come to see me again, okay?" I nodded. "Very well. Now listen to me. What I told you before about poetry and the greatest poetry in the world is false. Do you think this is the most interesting thing you have ever heard? "
His voice was interrupted.
Soon, the poet's small house was torn down. Mango trees have also been cut down. It seems that the poet has never been to this world.
(Excerpted from Naipaul's Miguel Street, Huacheng Publishing House,1September, 992)
1. People in Miguel Street are hospitable, but why is "mother" extremely unfriendly to poets? (3 points)
2. The poet "speaks slowly and clearly, as if everything he says costs money", which on the one hand shows that he is using language, on the other hand, it also implies his material life. When the policeman asked, "What are you doing here?" The poet answered irrelevant questions and said, "I have been thinking about this question for more than forty years." The question that poets have been thinking about for more than forty years is. (3 points)
The poet finally said to me, "Those poems, the greatest poems in the world, are all fake." Unexpectedly, but why is it reasonable? (4 points)
4. Why did the poet and "I" in the novel become good friends? Please analyze the original text briefly. (6 points)
Answer:
1. Because the poet said that he wanted to see bees, which made "mother" feel very strange and difficult to understand (or made "mother" feel alert and alert). (2 points) "Watching bees" belongs to leisure, which is incompatible with the life of the poor here. ( 1)
2. Very rigorous (careful, cautious and meticulous); (1) poverty; (1) How to spend your life. (1) (Why people live, the meaning of life is right)
3. Main points: ① The poet was poor all his life because he was addicted to poetry; (2 points)
The poet and "I" are friends. Being kind, he doesn't want "I" to repeat his life track. (2 points)
4. Main points: ① From the poet's point of view, the poet is lonely and eager for communication and sharing and emotional comfort; For example. (3 points) ② From the perspective of "I", "I" is a childlike and poetic child who can sympathize with and understand the poet's experience and emotion; Can communicate with the poet's spirit; For example. (3 points)
(Note: Answer from the poet and "I", 2 points, 1 point combined with content analysis, if the meaning is correct)
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