LSAT阅读一天一篇精度，望牛人指点

jxjiao

本人阅读一般，看完文章抓不住主题。希望通过每天一篇LSAt精读，加泛读提高对文章的结构把握能力。望大家指点。

下面内容包括原文，偶的结构分析，疑问。

下文：lsat test2 section1  第一篇

There is substantial evidence that by 1926, with the publication of The Weary Blues, Langston Hughes had broken with two well-established traditions in African American literature. In The Weary Blues, Hughes chose to modify the traditions that decreed that African American literature must promote racial acceptance and integration, and that, in order to do so, it must reflect and understanding and mastery of Western European literary techniques and styles. Necessarily excluded by this decree, linguistically and thematically, was the vast amount of secular folk material in the oral tradition that had been created by Black people in the years of slavery and after. It might be pointed out that even the spirituals or "sorrow songs" of the slaves-as distinct from their secular songs and stories-had been Europeanized to make them acceptable within these African American traditions after the Civil War. In 1862 northern White writers had commented favorably on the unique and provocative melodies of these "sorrow songs" when they first heard them sung by slaves in the Carolina sea islands. But by 1916, ten years before the publication of The Weary Blues, Hurry T. Burleigh, the Black baritone soloist at New York's ultrafashionable Saint George's Episcopal Chruch, had published Jubilee Songs of the United States, with every spiritual arranged so that a concert singer could sing it "in the manner of an art song." Clearly, the artistic work of Black people could be used to promote racial acceptance and integration only on the condition that it became Europeanized.

Even more than his rebellion against this restrictive tradition in African American art, Hughes's expression of the vibrant folk culture of Black people established his writing as a landmark in the history of African American literature. Most of his folk poems have the distinctive marks of this folk culture’s oral tradition: they contain many instances of naming and enumeration, considerable hyperbole and understatement, and a strong infusion of street-talk rhyming. There is a deceptive veil of artlessness in these poems. Hughes prided himself on being an impromptu and impressionistic writer of poetry. His, he insisted, was not an artfully constructed poetry. Yet an analysis of his dramatic monologues and other poems reveals that his poetry was carefully and artfully crafted. In his folk poetry we find features common to all folk literature, such as dramatic ellipsis, narrative compression, rhythmic repetition, and monosyllabic emphasis. The peculiar mixture of irony and humor we find in his writing is a distinguishing feature of his folk poetry. Together, these aspects of Hughes's writing helped to modify the previous restrictions on the techniques and subject matter of Black writers and consequently to broaden the linguistic and thematic range of African American literature

文章共两段

第一段：两个部分

1．点出主题：讲LH 对拉美艺术的两个传统的突破

2．解释突破前拉美艺术的传统，开始于necessarily …, 总结于clearly,….

第二段：

       1．LH写作的创新和对拉美艺术的影响

       2．回归主题：有助于突破，并拓展拉美文化

Spirituals: (american) 黑人的圣歌, Secular songs俗歌

第二段理解，第一段疑问多

第一段疑问：

1．  第一段主题句以下的材料我认为应该讲述 LH如何如何反叛传统才对，支持第一段主题句，还跟第二段even more than his rebellion against…对应。而不应该主要讲述传统是如何。

2。 在比较in 1862和but by 1916时，我不觉得有对比的感觉. In 1862,  white writers commented favorably on …, 不也正面的态度，怎么就两时期一比较，就能clearly得出只能Europeanized呢

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pumpkin

I recommend GMAT reading if you prepare for GMAT.

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cd小兵

Have a look

jxjiao

谢谢.

我也感觉到这一点. 好像路走直一点比较好.