What have i to say to you when we shall meet? yet 1 lie here thinking of you the stain of love is upon the world yellow, yellow, yellow it eats into the leaves, smears with saffron the horned branches that lean heavily against a smooth purple sky how does this excerpt best illustrate modernist ideals? a. it embraces uncertainty by describing the changing seasons. b. it deals with the sad emotions of losing a loved one. c. it looks at the subject of spring through a cynical perspective d. it addresses a traditional subjec th a nontraditional structure