Select the correct answer. What element of modernist poetry is evident in this excerpt from the poem, "Poetry" by Marianne Moore
? Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise if it must, these things are important not because a high sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. . . A. There is a strict meter and rhyme. B. There is an abcb rhyme scheme. C. The sentences fall across multiple stanzas. D. The theme of loneliness is obvious.
Much as you would like to respond that it implies loneliness, it really does not. There is nothing there that suggests isolation.
You'd also like to say that it is useful and hurrah that we can do these things, but unfortunately that choice is not offered. There's no rhyme, let alone a specific one. There is rhythm but not all the way through.
The only answer you have that is even remotely correct is C.
Sample Response: The characters felt panic and fear, and the first-person point of view helps readers feel what that was like. Seeing things through the eyes of the first-person narrator helps you feel what it was like not to know how to deal with or stop the spread of yellow fever.
