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Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane's poem "Voyages" is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?

Correct answer: D. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land

  • A. Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
  • B. Ezra Pound's "Cantos"
  • C. T.S. Eliot's "A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
  • D. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land

Explanation

“Voyages” responds to the spiritual and cultural desolation associated with Eliot’s The Waste Land, but replaces its fragmentation with an attempt at renewal through love, nature, and imaginative connection. The other works do not provide the same direct modernist context.

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