70. The passage probably continues with a discussion of ... .
A. famous composers of the early twentieth century B. other films directed by
D.W. Griffith
C. silent films by other directors D. the music in Birth of a Nation
VII. Read the passage and answer the question that follow
Marianne Moore (1887-1972) once said that her writing could be called poetry only
because there was no other name for it. Indeed her poems appear to be extremely
compressed essays that happen to be printed in jagged lines on the page. Her
subject were varied: animals, laborers, artists, and the craft of poetry. From her
general reading came quotations that she found striking or insightful. She included
these in her poems, scrupulously enclosed in quotation marks, and
sometimes identified in footnotes. Of this practice, she wrote, " 'Why many quotation
marks?' I am asked ... When a thing has been so well that it could not be said better,
why paraphrase it? Hence, my writing is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of
collection of flies in amber." Close observation and concentration on detail and the
methods of her poetry.
Marianne Moore grew up in Kirkwood, Missouri, near St. Lois. After graduation
from Bryn Mawr College in 1909, she taught commercial subjects at the Indian
School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Later she became a librarian in New York
City. During the 1920’s she was editor of The Dial, an important literary magazine of
the period. She lived quietly all her life, mostly in Brooklyn, New York. She spent a
lot of time at the Bronx Zoo, fascinated by animals. Her admiration of the Brooklyn
Dodgers-before the teammoved to Los Angeles-was widely known.
Her first book of poems was published in London in 1921 by a group of friends
associated with the Imagist movement. From that time on her poetry has been read
with interest by succeeding generations of poets and readers. In 1952 she was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Poems. She wrote that she did not write
poetry "for money or fame. To earn a living is needful, but it can be done in routine
ways. One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is
indispensable to one's happiness to express
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