Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives. All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulatedconsciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle'sargument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympatheticto us today) as they are capable of becoming. Aristotle argues that poetry is

Correct Answer: valuable