The correct answer is A) the comprise of the American Dream.
The historical reality that led to the development of modernist poetry was the compromise of the American Dream.
Modernist Poetry was a cultural movement in the late 19th century. This multicultural movement grew in World War 1. Modernist poetry tried to use the intellect instead of the emotions to reach the reader. The Modernist poets such as Virginia Woolf and Henry James used shifts in time in narrative perspectives. The historical reality that led to the development of modernist poetry was the compromise of the American Dream. Many other branches of Modernist poetry borne in the post-war days such as Imagism, Surrealism, and Postmodernism.
