Câu 11: 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 would best describe what Blake meant by the words "To see the World in a Grain of Sand / . . . And Eternity in an hour?"

1. A. a moment of mystical enlightenment — đáp án hiện tại
2. B. conversion to Christianity
3. C. a moment of artistic inspiration
4. D. an hallucinatory experience
5. E. a return to a state of being without sin