Question

Which lines best reveal Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s troubled view of modern American society?

To the Oracle at Delphi

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (excerpt)


I, Americus, the American,

wrought from the dark in my mother long ago,

from the dark of ancient Europaa—

Why are you staring at me now

in the dusk of our civilization--


Why are you staring at me

as if I were America itself

the new Empire

vaster than any in ancient days

with its electronic highways

carrying its corporate monoculture

around the world

And English the Latin of our days—


Great Oracle, sleeping through the centuries,

Awaken now at last

And tell us how to save us from ourselves

and how to survive our own rulers

who would make a plutocracy of our democracy

in the Great Divide

between the rich and the poor

in whom Walt Whitman heard America si

Answer 1

The lines that best reveal Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s troubled view of modern American society are:

* Carrying its corporate monoculture

* And tell us how to save us from ourselves

* Who would make a plutocracy of our democracy

Step-by-step explanation:

In "To the Oracle at Delphi" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, there is a reference to a mythological figure from ancient Greece, in which he asks for divine intervention to wash away all the all the negative characteristics of modern life, and he also suggests that art is the one that can save humanity away from their industrial life.