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One of those rare local creations of America, cowboy poetry has a long and vivid history, driven by its colorful practitioners a

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问题     One of those rare local creations of America, cowboy poetry has a long and vivid history, driven by its colorful practitioners and memorable poems.
    Cowboy poetry is a form of poetry which grew out of a【B1】______of instant composition carried on by workers on cattle drives and ranches. After a day of work, cowboys would gather around a campfire and【B2】______one another with tall tales and folk songs.【B3】______was common, so poetic forms were employed to help memory.
    Cowboy poetry is【B4】______both in its culturally specific subject matter and its traditional use of rhyme and meter. While the range of【B5】______landscapes explored in cowboy poetry are the traditional province of poetry, from joy to【B6】______, from humor to spirituality, the particulars【B7】______from the American West: horses, cattle, fire, storms, mythic figures of cowboys and ranchers, and the splendid wilderness. In keeping with their subject matter, cowboy poets tend to write in a traditional, rhyming style. They【B8】______folk songs more than modern poetry.
    【B9】______, though adherents would claim that authors should have some connection to the cowboy life such that they can write poetry with an "insider’s perspective".
    【B10】______. Hollywood used to make dozens of films a year about square-jawed gunslingers (枪手). It now produces almost none, and there is currently no new Western series to be found on television or basic cable.【B11】______. Although it is growing, their audience is smaller: unlike Western films, cowboy poetry is mostly produced by Westerners, for Westerners.
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答案tradition
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