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Auden's poetic register, by the late 1930s, is best characterised as:
AArchaic and balladic
BStrictly metrical and pastoral
CMystical and revelatory
DPolitically engaged and conversational
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Politically engaged and conversational
1. Auden's 1930s verse engages political and ethical questions directly.
2. His diction is conversational compared to High Modernist density.
3. The shift partly defines the late-Modernist generation.
_Source: Coverage brief — Modernist canon — "Modern + Postmodern: ... Auden"_
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