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　　I have yet to meet a poetry-lover under thirty who was
　　not an introvert, or an introvert who was not unhappy in
　　adolescence. At school, particularly, maybe, if, as in my own
　　case, it is a boarding school, he sees the extrovert successful,
　�。�5） happy, and good and himself unpopular or neglected; and what is
　　hardest to bear is not unpopularity, but the consciousness that i
　　is deserved, that he is grubby and inferior and frightened and
　　dull. Knowing no other kind of society than the contingent, he
　　imagines that this arrangement is part of the eternal scheme of
　　（10） things, that he is doomed to a life of failure and envy. It is not till
　　he grows up, till years later he runs across the heroes of his
　　school days and finds them grown commonplace and sterile, that
　　he realizes that the introvert is the lucky one, the best adapted to
　　an industrial civilization the collective values of which are so
　�。�15） infantile that he alone can grow, who has educated his fantasies
　　and learned how to draw upon the resources of his inner life. At
　　the time, however, his adolescence is unpleasant enough. Unable
　　to imagine a society in which he would feel at home, he turns
　　away from the human to the nonhuman: homesick he will seek,
　　（20） not his mother, but mountains or autumn woods, and the
　　growing life within him will express itself in a devotion to music
　　and thoughts upon mutability and death. Art for him will be
　　something infinitely precious, pessimistic, and hostile to life. If it
　　speaks of love it must be love frustrated, for all success seems to
　�。�25） him noisy and vulgar; if it moralizes, it must counsel a stoic
　　resignation, for the world he knows is well content with itself and
　　will not change.

　　Deep as first love and wild with all regret,
　　O death in life, the days that are no more.
　　Now more than ever seems it sweet to die
　　To cease upon the midnight with no pain.
　�。�35） That to the adolescent is the authentic poetic note and whoever is
　　the first in his life to strike it, whether Tennyson, Keats,
　　Swinburne, Housman or another, awakens a passion of imitation
　　and an affectation which no subsequent refinement or
　　sophistication of his taste can entirely destroy. In my own case it
　�。�40） was Hardy in the summer of 1923; for more than a year I read no
　　one else and I do not think that I was ever without one volume or
　　another or the beautifully produced Wessex edition in my hands:
　　I smuggled them into class, carried them about on Sunday walks,
　　and took them up to the dormitory to read in the early morning,
　　（45） though they were far too unwieldy to be read in bed with
　　comfort. In the autumn of 1924 there was a palace revolution
　　after which he had to share his kingdom with Edward Thomas,
　　until finally they were both defeated by Elliot at the battle of
　　Oxford in 1926.
　�。�50） Besides serving as the archetype of the Poetic, Hardy was
　　also an expression of the contemporary scene. He was both my
　　Keats and my Sandburg.

　　To begin with, he looked like my father: that broad
　　unpampered moustache, bald forehead, and deeply lined
　�。�55） sympathetic face belonged to that other world of feeling and
　　sensation. Here was a writer whose emotions, if sometimes
　　monotonous and sentimental in expression, would be deeper and
　　more faithful than my own, and whose attachment to the earth
　　would be more secure and observant.

7. The author uses all of the following to make his point except
　　A. metaphor
　　B. personal experience
　　C. generalization
　　D. classical allusions
　　E. comparison

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