English

Juliet Wilkinson

2 October, 03:14

Read the excerpt from "Poetry."

When they become so derivative as to become

unintelligible,

the same thing may be said for all of us, that we

do not admire what

we cannot understand: the bat

holding on upside down or in quest of something to

eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless

wolf under

a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse

that feels a flea, the base-

ball fan, the statistician-

What theme does this excerpt express?

a Most people have very similar interests.

b People do not like what they cannot understand.

c People are more interested in animals than poetry.

d Most people are tired of their interests.