Find the appropriate word and fill blank (i).

Directions: Complete this passage by selecting the most suitable option for the corresponding gap.

In the first place, I wish to state my _____(i)_______ belief that poetry should not try to teach, that it should exist simply because it is a created beauty. We do not ask the trees to teach us moral lessons. We know that these texts are ______(ii)_______, but many of us do not yet see that to write an obvious moral all over a work of art, picture, statue, or poem, is not only ridiculous, but ______(iii)______ and offensive.  We distrust a beauty we only half understand, and rush in with our ______(iv)______ suggestions.