Explanation : Passage II

Answer: (A)

The context is a comparison between those who think poetry is different from everyday language and others who think that poetry reflects everyday language. Emerson is mentioned together with the latter group, and serves as an extreme example of their view, when he says “fossil poetry.” Therefore, (A) is a safe answer.

(B) is a good distractor, because of the word ‘fossil’, but Emerson was not saying that all language becomes old.

While Emerson might agree with this, (C) does not directly answer what is implied by the phrase “fossil poetry.”

(D) is a generic but attractive answer that does nothing to answer the question.

Detail Analysis

First, let's break down the context:

Some people think poetic language should be separate form everyday language.
Other people think it should be "current language heightened."
Emerson says all language is "fossil poetry"
Emerson and others miss the point that an enormous range of linguistic expression is called poetry.
We can infer that Emerson's statement will either be related to (as an example, possibly) or equivalent to (as a third item in list) the first two opinions.

In other words, the first two statements give us two possible situations. Either A) poetry is separate from every day language or B) poetry is related to every day language. Emerson's statement ties together with option B, because he says all language is some kind of poetry. That must mean that everyday language is related to poetry. We barely even need to know what "fossil poetry" is. We can cross off all of answer choices (B)-(E) in the question just from what we understand from the context.