Read the following excerpt from sonnet xliii, "what lips my lips have kissed,
and where, and why" by edna st. vincent millay:
what lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
i have forgotten, and what arms have lain
under my head till morning; but the rain
is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
upon the glass and listen for reply,
and in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
for unremembered lads that not again
will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
what aspect of this poem most clearly marks it as a work of modernism?
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a. the author is influenced by the dark side of the human psyche.
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b. the author focuses on physical pleasures over emotional pain.
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c. the author expresses a sense of loss toward past lovers.
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d. the author strays from a "happily ever after treatment of
romance