Answer: Poetry can preserve life's brief moments of beauty.
Explanation: The excerpt of the article shown is emphasizing the beauty of poetry and the moments it captures, and there are a few key sentences that make the answer (given the four options shown) very apparent.
For example, the excerpt states "[poetry] arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life..." and "...poetry redeems from decay the visitations of divinity in man." Both of these lines are claiming that poetry can take small periods of joy or happiness (emphasized as divine moments witnessed by man) and make them eternal.