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Make It New!: Early Modernism — Test

Question 6 • Literature and Composition III

Read the excerpt from "Poetry." I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in it after all, a place for the genuine. Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. What theme does this excerpt best express?

Answer
A
Poetry is interesting when it is authentic.
B
Poetry is dull except when written in free verse.
C
Poetry is often a mirror of human behavior.
D
Poetry is interesting only to the author of the poem.
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