Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. There are many and good reasons why women have left little in the way of literary monuments, especially poetry. The main reason is education, or more specifically the lack of it in most women‘s lives until well into the twentieth century. In the light of this, what is surprising is not that so few women wrote poetry, but that any women wrote poetry at all. When a woman who had never been to grammar school, never learnt Latin and did not know the rules of syntax, let alone of prosody, set herself to writing lines that rhymed, she was imitating an art that, admire it though she might, she did not understand - a male art, a male tradition. This meant she generally produced poetry that was at best imperfect, at worst, frankly bad.
- The reason why women haven‘t created literary monuments is because until recently they were not educated. In this case, the only option for an uneducated woman was to plagiarize in order to show herself as superior.
- The lack of education is the biggest reason for women‘s lack of achievements in the literary sphere. In the absence of the knowledge of basics, she would see the male creations as 'deal‘ and try to copy them.
- The lack of education is the biggest reason for women‘s lack of achievements in the literary sphere. Feeling inferior to educated men, they would imitate them in every area including literature.
- The lack of education is the biggest reason for women‘s lack of achievements in the literary sphere. It suited men well since in such a scenario the women had no choice but to imitate the men.