Номер 1, страница 288 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс учебник Афанасьева, Михеева

You will hear five people speaking. A E. Match what they say with the statements one six. You don't have to use one of the statements.

A.

T. S. Eliot was a poet, playwright, and critic. Some people say he was the most important poet of the twentieth century. Although he was born in the United States, he spent most of his life in England and became a Briton. Eliot wrote about the need for people to have strong moral and religious beliefs. His poetry is not always easy to understand, because it combines references to myths, history, and literature, as well as scenes of modern life.

B.

Emily Dickinson was one of America's greatest poets. Her poems can be hard to read. She wrote about the difficulty of understanding the world and of how quickly and strangely life passes. Emily was a reserved person. She refused to publish any of her poems during her life. She lived all her life at her parents' home in Massachusetts. We don't know much about her personal life.

C.

Walt Whitman was the greatest poet of the nineteenth century. Whitman was born in New York, worked as a teacher and a journalist. His collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, was first published in eighteen fifty-five. During the Civil War, Whitman served as a nurse in a Washington hospital. When President Lincoln died, Whitman expressed his feelings in one of his best-remembered poems, O Captain! My Captain!

D.

Walter Raleigh was an English knight at the court of Elizabeth the First. He was a soldier, explorer, historian, and poet. He traveled to the New World and introduced potatoes and tobacco smoking to the English. Sir Walter Raleigh spent thirteen years as a prisoner in the Tower of London, and finally was executed. Raleigh wrote some very beautiful sonnets.

E.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, critic, and short story writer. For many years, people thought that he was just a writer of entertaining, suspense and mysterious stories. Today it is believed that his work was much more important than that. His influence on many artists during his life, and later, was really great. His best known poem is The Raven, one of the most powerful and mysterious pieces of poetry ever.