A.
The incorporation of many allusions to other texts breaks with poetic conventions inasmuch as poetry is traditionally based in telling the story of a character or a group of characters in a straightfowards fashion that does not refer to things outside the story except in a referential sense. This would be the case in most epic poetry, like the ´Iliad´ or ´Paradise Lost´.
B.
The poem distorts the traditional meaning of poetry in the sense that traditional poetry is based in the epic form, where clearly delineated characters are set out in some traditional heroic or tragic scenario. Prufrock´s existence is opposed to any real heroic or classic tragic plot.
A. She in turn had told him - indeed, had summoned him in order to entrust him with - another story, one from long ago, before the Civil War.
B. Most of the time, it’s a white character using the word - or, most conspicuously, the novel itself, in ts voice - with an uglier edge
C. The same few passages, in the very first pages, remind me of this - they’re markings on an entryway - sudden bursts of bristly adjective clusters.
D. It may represent the colosseum American literature came to producing an analog for “Ulysses,” which influenced it deeply - each in its way is a provincial Modernist novel about a young man trying to awaken from history - and like “Ulysses,” it lives as a book more praised than read, or more esteemed than enjoyed.
1. Yet
2. Never
3. For
4. Ever
5. Already
6. Just
7. Never
8. Yet
Answer: The first one :)
Explanation: Hope I helped!