Multiple choice

Directions: Answer the given question based on the following passage:

It is not too much of an exaggeration to say that from being artless the poet becomes the conscious artist. Often enough the poets when faced with more difficult material tend to become obscure, and again in handling some of the difficult metres which they attempted the same result is achieved. Though humour is often enough lacking, there are touches here and there, sometimes of a grim kind. Pathos, too, of a solemn and elevated kind is to be found as well as that of a more simple genre. In the best, the style is lucid, firm, controlled, and superb; in the worst, it has every possible fault.

What message does the passage convey?

  1. To suggest that poets are artless

  2. To show that poets are inept at handling metres

  3. To demonstrate that poets lack humour

  4. To show that poets are not conscious artists

  5. To suggest that poets, more often than not, acquire the tag of a conscious artist more by chance than by design
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Explanation

This is precisely what the writer says that quite often an artless poet becomes a conscious artist.

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