If top academics and those highly informed about the subject take issue with poetry, school pupils cannot be expected to fathom it. On December 7th, 2007, The Guardian, a British newspaper affiliated to the Left, noted that this ambiguous identity of poetry renders it very difficult to teach; "But until education theory asks itself what poetry itself is, and therefore what the teacher is trying to get across, poems will continue largely to figure as teaching aids, exercises and - for teenagers - increasingly tedious, somewhat arbitrary puzzles". The canonized poets and their poetry are concerned with adult life experiences, e.g. love, life, work, history and politics, solitude, loneliness, etc. For this reason, widely acclaimed poetry is deep and requires an adult mind and mature emotional depth to understand, or at least draw something from, this famous poetry.
Which of the following statements, if true, most effectively weakens the conclusion of the argument?
1.Poems that require more mature minds to understand can, and should, be used to stretch school pupils' minds, to teach about these contexts as well as about the kind of imagery and analogy used in the poems.
2.If the pupils cannot understand the basics of reading, writing and grammar, they will certainly struggle to with more complex concepts fundamental to the study of poetry such as similies, personifications, metaphors and extended metaphors.
3.Reading poetry aloud improves reading ability because the student is vocalising the building blocks that form certain sounds to make words.
4.Only if pupils are taught poetry of their native language at a young age, can they learn the usage of this language properly.
5.While great poetry may deal with adult experiences there is poetry that targets a younger audience and methods available to teach this type of poetry.
Correct Answer : 1
Solution :
The passage claims that poetry is hard to be taught and requires an adult mind to be understood, and as such should not be taught to children. Option b) is eliminated as it strengthens the argument.
Option c) weakens the argument by providing an additional benefit of studying poetry, but does not address or negate the claims made in the passage. Thus, it is eliminated.
Option d) weakens the argument by giving a reason why poetry should be taught to children, but does not undermine the claims made in the passage. Thus, it is eliminated.
Option e) weakens the argument to a certain degree by claiming that there are options of teaching children's poetry to a younger audience. But it only applies specifically to children's poetry, while the passage speaks about all poetry in general.
Option a) considerably weakens the argument by addressing the claims made in the passage and undermining them to suggest that poetry can be used to improve the young mind's maturity. Thus, Option a is the right answer.
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