D. “The sun is hot on my neck as I observe/The spikes of the crocus.”
Answer: Hospitable
Explanation:
People who are hospitable welcome guests and treat them as well as possible. These people will often feed the guests and give them gifts or souvenirs to show their appreciation for the guests visiting.
This is what happened in this case when Christopher Columbus got to this village in the New World. Sadly he repaid their hospitability with hostility as he enslaved and murdered huge numbers of Native Americans.
"The modernists did not follow uniform rhyme and rhythm patterns" is the one statement among the following choices given in the question that shows the way the modernist poets' language differ from that of traditional poetry. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the third option or option "C".
The answer is C because the relative pronoun "that" is connecting "friend" to a clause. A relative pronoun connects nouns (friend) to phrases or clauses.