Question

5. The poem "Mr. Flood's Party" best exhibits which of the following characteristics of modernist poetry?

Question 5 options:

Dealt with issues that concerned modernists


Broke with past literary traditions


Highlighted the alienation of the individual in the modern world


Employed references to diverse cultures, belief systems and histories

Question 6 (3 points)
6. Which quote from "Mr. Flood's Party" best supports your answer to #5?

Question 6 options:

"There was not much that was ahead of him,
And there was nothing in the town below—
Where strangers would have shut the many doors
That many friends had opened long ago."


"Then, as a mother lays her sleeping child
Down tenderly, fearing it may awake,
He sat the jug down slowly at his fee"


" 'Well, Mr. Flood, we have not met like this
In a long time; and many a change has come
To both of us, I fear, since last it was
We had a drop together. Welcome home!' ”


"Convivially returning with himself,
Again he raised the jug up to the light;"

Answer 1

5

Highlighted the alienation of the individual in the modern world

6

"There was not much that was ahead of him,

And there was nothing in the town below—

Where strangers would have shut the many doors

That many friends had opened long ago."

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

5. Employed references to diverse cultures, belief systems and histories

6. "Convivially returning with himself, Again he raised the jug up to the light,"