Self-study
P1
The poet Louise Glück has said that she feels comfortable writing within a tradition often characterized as belonging only to male poets. ███
Intro topic ·
Poet Louise Glück and gender dynamics in poetry
Glück's perspective ·
Appreciates work of prominent male poets, takes inclusive view of her place within English poetry
Contrast perspectives ·
Glück and other female poets
Other female poets view poetic tradition defined by male poets as excluding women; Glück disagrees, takes a positive view of poetic tradition
P2
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Reason for Glück's perspective ·
Sees poetry as dealing with universal themes that cross gender divides
Illustrate Glück's perspective ·
Example of death: it affects everyone
P3
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Critics' perspective ·
Poetry's themes aren't as universal as Glück says
Gender-related biases exist regardless of subject matter; the work female poets is always affected by poetry's male-dominated history
Expand on critics' perspective ·
Female poets should replace traditional, male-developed poetic forms with new female-developed forms
P4
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Glück's response to critics ·
Female-oriented poetry is counterproductive
It continues to put gender-based limits on poetry; also, gender-related perspectives come through more authentically when gender isn't the focus of the poetry
Expand on Glück's response ·
Literature is always evolving
Implication: using traditional, male-developed poetic forms doesn't mean such poetry will always reflect male biases
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Spotlight
12.
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a
respectful dismissal
The author doesn’t provide any evidence of a negative attitude toward Gluck’s response. So “dismissal” doesn’t fit.
b
grudging acceptance
The author doesn’t provide any evidence of a negative attitude toward Gluck’s response. So “grudging” doesn’t fit, since there’s nothing reluctant about the author’s acceptance of Gluck’s view.
c
detached indifference
The author doesn’t exhibit “indifference.” Clearly the author is interested in Gluck’s view, since she wrote a whole passage about it. To support “indifferent,” we’d need evidence the author doesn’t care about whether Gluck’s view is right or not. But given that the author examines how critics respond to Gluck’s view and how Gluck responds to the critics, the author is not indifferent.
d
tacit endorsement
Although the author never explicitly endorses Gluck’s perspective, the structure of the passage provides evidence that the author agrees with it. The author focuses on explaining Gluck’s response to the critics and ends on that response — the author never describes how the critics respond to Gluck and never identifies anything in Gluck’s response that’s questionable. This is evidence of the author’s implicit (tacit) agreement with Gluck. Arguably the word “
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enthusiastic acclaim
This is too strongly positive. There’s no evidence of “enthusiasm” from the author. The author is fairly restrained in how she describes Gluck’s view; although there’s evidence the author implicitly agrees with Gluck, this doesn’t rise to the level of an enthusiastic opinion about Gluck’s view.