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Which 20th-century poet famously alluded to the month of 'April' in the opening lines of one of his major works?
(a) W.H. Auden
(b) Ezra Pound
(c) W.B. Yeats
(d) T.S. Eliot
Explanation: T.S. Eliot's seminal modernist poem 'The Waste Land' begins with the iconic line, 'April is the cruellest month.' This opening subverts the traditional association of April with spring, rebirth, and fertility, instead framing it as a time of painful awakening and memory in a post-war, fragmented world. This allusion is one of the most famous and analyzed lines in 20th-century English poetry.