AMERICAN LITERATURE
TRUE AND FALSE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Eliot (1888-1965) is synonymous with modernism. Everything about his poetry bespeaks high modernism: its use of myth to undergird and order atomized modern experience; its collage-like juxtaposition of different voices, traditions, and discourses; and its focus on form as the carrier of meaning.
Detailed explanation-2: -He is best known as a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry and as the author of such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943).
Detailed explanation-3: -What is an example of modernist poetry? Examples of Modernist poetry include “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams, “The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot, and “In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound.
Detailed explanation-4: -No, T.S. Eliot is considered to be a modernist poet because most of his poetry was written before 1945. Postmodernism began after the end of World War II in 1945.
Detailed explanation-5: -T.S. Eliot-Father of Modern Poetry.