Which of the following was NOT a prominent theme of American and English modernist poetry ?
Correct answer: D. The approval of the norms and values of bourgeois culture
- A. The search for a new poetic language and the idea that language can be reinvented by poets
- B. The quest to describe objects with precision and without emotion
- C. The idea that the self is neither unitary nor permanently stable
- D. The approval of the norms and values of bourgeois culture
Explanation
Modernist writers generally questioned bourgeois social values rather than approving them. The other choices describe major modernist concerns, including linguistic innovation, precise observation, and the unstable self.
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