Nhận biết (M1)

Text 1

The poet Audre Lorde once claimed that poetry is the most inexpensive of art forms to practice. While people who pursue other art forms—sculpture, architecture, long-form prose—require large blocks of uninterrupted time as well as money to complete their work, poets can write, as Lorde said, "between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper." So poets can make worthwhile art even if they must earn their living in another way.

Text 2

Any assessment of the state of contemporary poetry must reckon with the professionalization of the field. While it is possible in theory for anyone to publish in Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, or a similar major poetry outlet, many people who do so have professional training in poetry and extensive practice writing it, which requires time not often available to those who must also work full-time jobs. Thus, financial security indirectly affects which people become poets.

Based on the texts, how would Lorde (Text 1) most likely respond to the argument presented in Text 2?

• A.

  By indicating that those poets who publish in major poetry journals are most likely to be able to earn a living by writing poetry

• B.

  By pointing out that people can produce valuable poetry in other circumstances than those described by the author of Text 2

• C.

  By suggesting that those artists who specialize in more financially rewarding artistic forms are unlikely to also be successful as poets

• D.

  By asserting that people often work full-time jobs in order to afford the professional training described in Text 2