[解析] 男士说Billy Collins是自己最喜欢的诗人之一,他用通俗的语言写了很多有趣且优秀的诗歌,故选D。 [点睛] ①从选项可知问题是有关评论一个人及其诗歌,属于细节匹配题。②此处he和his指诗人Billy Collins。A说法在对话中没有依据;B中的refined words与对话中的everyday English不符:C中的deep thoughts并未在...
What must our dogs be thinking when they look at us? Poet Billy Collins imagines the inner lives of two very different companions. It’s a charming short talk, perfect for taking a break and dreaming …
A Billy Collins reading is an antidote for today's troubled and tumultuous world. He condenses humor into the last couple of beats before a pause in his poems, which is particularly effective when read aloud. There's a certain ba-duh-bump to the meter of his verse. He drew more than ...
和心愛的狗狗共享天倫之樂,是人們共同的生命記憶,坊間許多書籍、言論都在探討狗狗的想法,美國詩人Billy Collins也提出了他的想像。 Billy Collins是美國2001-2003年度的桂冠詩人,也是紐約市立大學的特聘教授,出版過9本詩集,曾被紐約市立圖書館尊稱為「文學泰斗」(Literary Lion),也曾獲選為紐約時報「美國最受歡迎詩...
The former is the subject of Billy Collins’ poem ‘Writing in the Afterlife’. It presents the reader with an interesting depiction of the afterlife from the perspective of a man who is experiencing it. Nothing is as the reader, or the speaker expected. He outlines what it was like to ...
I am a social psychologist. As a graduate student at Yale, my curiosity was sparked by the study of emotions, and by a question my undergraduate advisor first asked me: “Peter, why do you think humans even have emotio...
Atkins has played a prominent role in policy debates around the SEC for years, including at Patomak, whose clients include companies up and down Wall Street. He was a noted skeptic of the sweeping reform measures enacted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, known as theDodd-Frank Act...
During the eleventh century, also known as the Dark Ages, a Persian astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, and poet named Omár Khayyám made sole use of the quatrain in a book of connected verses entitled “Rubáiyát,” or “quatrains” in Arabic. It was translated by English poet...
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted. —Neil deGrasse Tyson 3 Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it woul...
“I would have been a little more diplomatic, but I understand where he’s coming from. The governor and I have both heard the stories from [Holocaust] survivors. He was being genuine.” Van Dusen is referring to the work he and Pritzker did to find a permanent home for the Illinoi...