Answer:
The correct answer is option:
C. Neglected moments
Explanation:
An understanding of Tennyson's success as an artist allows one to recognize his conception of the poet's position. For decades, Western thought had been dominated by the Aritotelian conception of the poet as the creator and upholder of the best values of society: but in the half century before Tennyson started writing, the conceptions of Romanticism, which exalted art as self-expression and venerated the poet as revolutionary and social critic, had taken hold. Throughout his life, Tennyson was forced to choose between being the public artist, committed to upholding what was right about his culture, and the private mystic, seeking to discover the human character's psychological complexities as he encountered the vicissitudes of his own storm-thrown existence.
