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. 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 a construct which they could manipulate.

B. All of these answers

C. Most modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry.

D. Individuals often felt lost and alienated in large cities, and among poets this resulted in turning inward and focusing only on the world of ones own imagination.

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