LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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Question
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Ezra Pound’s “Cantos” may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound’s poem alludes to which of the following epic poems?
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The Mahabharata
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Paradise Lost
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The Odyssey
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The Aeneid
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -He was an early champion of a number of avant-garde and Modernist poets, developed important channels of intellectual and aesthetic exchange between the United States and Europe, and contributed to important literary movements. Pound, along with Richard Aldington and other writers, founded the Imagist movement.
Detailed explanation-2: -It is a book-length work, widely considered to present formidable difficulties to the reader. Strong claims have been made for it as the most significant work of modernist poetry of the twentieth century. As in Pound’s prose writing, the themes of economics, governance and culture are integral to its content.
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