Question

about the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
the night above the dingle starry,
time let me hail and climb
golden in the heydays of his eyes,
and honoured among wagons i was prince of the apple towns
and once below a time i lordly had the trees and leaves
trail with daisies and barley
down the rivers of the windfall light.

and as i was green and carefree, famous among the barns
about the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
in the sun that is young once only,
time let me play and be
golden in the mercy of his means,
and green and golden i was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
and the sabbath rang slowly
in the pebbles of the holy streams.

which common modernist topic is evident in these lines?
○ alienation
○ disillusionment
○ loss
○ nostalgia

Explanation:

The poem lines reflect a speaker looking back fondly at a carefree, idyllic youthful past (green, golden, happy rural days) with a tone of longing for that bygone time, which aligns with the Modernist topic of nostalgia. The other options do not fit: alienation (feeling disconnected) is not present, disillusionment (loss of idealism) is absent, and while there is a sense of the past being gone, the core emotion is nostalgic longing rather than just general loss.

Answer:

Nostalgia