SSAT诗歌阅读真题解析
SSAT考试是美国中学入学考试，国际学生也会选择SSAT考试，通过SSAT成绩可以申请美国中学留学，今天小编为大家带来的是SSAT阅读考试相关难点解析，大家都知道SSAT阅读考试基础要求就是同学们的词汇量和阅读速度。所有同学们要在这两方面花些心思哦，今天小编为大家带来的是SSAT诗歌阅读真题解析，希望通过这些内容能够帮助大家备考。
一：
Hope-Emily Dickison
·Hope is the thing with feather
·That perches in the soul
·And sings the tune without the word
·And never stop at all
·And sweetest in the Gale--is heard
·And sore must be the strom,
·That could abash the little bird
·That kept so many warm
·I’ve heard it in the chilliest land
·And on the strangest sea
·Yet, never in extremity
·It asked a crumb of me
《希望》来源于美国19世纪伟大诗人Emily Dickinson，知道这位诗人的同学们应该知道Emily Dickinson的诗歌大多描绘的是关于生命，死亡以及永生的话题的，并且她认为孤独是美丽的。Hope这篇诗歌，首先把握住诗歌的中心词是----hope，把hope比喻成了有feather(羽毛)的东西，那就是小鸟。这时，在做选择的时候，答案选项一定是紧扣或者跟hope这个主题紧密相关的选项。接着一定要把握住诗歌的感情色彩，是negative还是positive，从这篇诗歌来看，希望从来不从我身上获取半分(crumb指面包屑)。这就可以说明作者对hope 的感情色彩是积极的。
二：
To an Athlete Dying Young
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
Today, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.
Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears.
Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honors out
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.
So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.
And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strength less dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl’s.
献给一位英年早逝的运动员
诗歌开头描写运动员生前赢得比赛，人们将他举到肩高欢送回家的场面
第二段开始描写运动员死后葬礼的情形。同样是将他扛到肩高，同样的是送他回家，这次的家却在一个更加安静的小镇，那是逝者的家园。
作者在第三段段开始表明自己赞赏的态度。聪明的小伙子，你适时地溜走。因为荣耀从不长存，虽说你早早获得桂冠，但是象征荣耀的桂冠比玫瑰凋谢得还快。
后面的shady night实指死亡，死亡像黑夜一样遮住了眼睛，死后泥土将运动员掩埋，耳朵也听不见任何欢呼了。
现在这位运动员永远不用担心自己会加入那些失败者的行列了。那些失败者已经没有了荣誉，对名誉望成莫及，名字已经被人们所遗忘。
倒数第二段中有一个暗喻，即把死亡比作是一道门，所以会有sill 和 lintel，分别是门的下面和上面，无论是奔跑的脚步踏上门槛，还是将被被举高到门楣，都意味着正式迈进死亡的入口
三：
Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart;
The end lost in dream,
They float past our view,
We only watch their glad, early start.
Freighted with hope,
Crimsoned with joy,
We scatter the leaves of our opening rose;
Their widening scope,
Their distant employ,
We never shall know. And the stream as it flows
Sweeps them away,
Each one is goneEver beyond into infinite ways.
-“Petals”Amy Lowell
“The end lost in dream”(line 4) suggests that
“Life is a stream”诗人是借stream(溪)来表达自己对life(生命)的理解。有时我们会发现诗并没有太强烈的感情流露，可能仅仅以抽象的方式在述说某个具体的东西让我们不能够快速地读出主旨，这就是SSAT考官在诗歌上增加难度的方法，针对这类的诗歌我们仅需读出诗人想述说的东西，然后回到题目中选择与原句语境中表达最接近的选项即可。
以上就是小编为大家带来的关于SSAT诗歌阅读真题解析，看完以上是不是有感触了呢？同学们可以在备考中结合自己的学习方法来进一步提升SSAT阅读考试。想要获取更多SSAT考试时间多久等更多信息，大家可以线上咨询客服哦！最后小编预祝大家能考取心中满意成绩。
