Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The traditional use of poetry in the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching has meant the common truths or common deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past joys of the same design. But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity for self‐recognition, which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon a kind of lying against time, and against the achievements of the past. The use of such poetry demands to be seen in a deidealized way, if it is to be seen more truly. ‐ Harold Bloom, “The Use of Poetry”
According to the passage, the pleasures of originality may depend upon which of the following?
A kind of lying against time and against the achievements of the past.
A kind of lying against time and against the achievements of the past. The passage explicitly states this possible dependence of the pleasures of originality. Self-recognition is presented as the need that requires those pleasures; it is not the answer to this narrower question about what they may depend on.
Important Questions from Reading Comprehension
What is the meaning of ‘intrigued’?
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When the iceberg turns upside down, it appears ________.
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