Answer: Option B
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B
Option: (b)
If we look at the last three lines of the 1^st paragraph, it is quite evident that the author is talking about the gap between the two artistic interpretations within the depth of the creative power. Option (d) is ruled out because the author nowhere talks about the difference between the 'width' and the 'depth' of creative power.
Paragraph 1:
· Every civilized society lives and thrives on a silent but profound agreement as to what is to be accepted as the valid mould of experience.
· What is a civilization
· In such a culture, stable and sure of itself within the frontiers of 'naturalized' experience, the arts wield their creative power not so much in width as in depth.
· They do not create new experience, but deepen and purify the old.
Paragraph 2:
· The periods of art which are most vigorous in creative passion seem to occur when the established pattern of experience loosens its rigidity without as yet losing its force.
· The discipline of the old order gave depth to the excitement of the breaking away the depth of job and tragedy, of incomparable conquests and irredeemable losses.
·The works of the early Renaissance and the poetry of Shakespeare vibrate with the compassion for live experience in danger of dying from exposure and neglect.
·The exploring spirit of art was in the depths of its consciousness still aware of a scheme of things into which to fit its exploits and creations.
Paragraph 3:
· The more this scheme of things loses its stability, the more boundless and uncharted appears the ocean of potential exploration.
·In the blank confusion of infinite potentialities flotsam of significance gets attached to jetsam of experience.
· Story of the idle man in the boat.