In the first lecture of his Modern Poetry course, what argument does Professor Langdon Hammer make about the relationship between the modern city and poetic modernism ?

• A. Most modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry.
• B. Many languages and many forms of language were used in large cities; modernist poets often treated language not as something given and natural but as
• C. Individuals often felt lost and alienated in large cities, and among poets this resulted in turning inward and focusing only on the world of one’s o
• D. All of these answers