Câu 12: CBEST Section 2 Reading: California Basic Educational Skills Test - Reading

Poet William Blake believed that true religion is revealed through art, not through nature. For Blake, it is through art also that eternity is revealed. One does not have to die to reach eternity; eternity is the moment of vision. It is only through the reordering of sense impressions by the creative imagination that we are able, as Blake says in his "Auguries of Innocence," "To see the World in a Grain of Sand / . . .And Eternity in an hour."On the basis of above passage please answer the following question. Which of the following defines Blake’s view of "nature" as described in the passage?

1. A. the raw stuff of which the world is made but which does not represent ultimate reality — đáp án hiện tại
2. B. the work of God in a state of innocence before it is corrupted by human beings
3. C. the world made up of base and corrupt material before it is changed by the perception of the artist at the "moment of vision"
4. D. the temporal world that will perish, as opposed to the world of artistic vision that will last forever
5. E. the real world as it is perceived by ordinary people, as opposed to the fantasy world of the artist