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Introduction to Early Modern Literature

Question 9 • (Cooper)WCA 0231 10th Grade English 3rd 9 Weeks 25-26

Read the poem “The Garret,” by Ezra Pound.COME let us pity those who are better off than we are.Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends,And we have friends and no butlers.Come let us pity the married and the unmarried. Dawn enters with little feet like a gilded Pavlova,And I am near my desire.Nor has life in it aught betterThan this hour of clear coolness, the hour of waking together.Which best describes the modernist theme reflected in the poem?

Answer
A
mistrust of authority
B
the isolation of individuals
C
optimism in the face of devastation
D
fear of new technology
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