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Tagore's central image of the 'frail vessel' is repeatedly:
ABroken and discarded
BEmptied and refilled by the divine with 'fresh life'
CLocked away
DSold in the market
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Emptied and refilled by the divine with 'fresh life'
1. The cycle of emptying-and-refilling is the explicit pattern.
2. 'Fresh life' is the divine's gift each cycle.
3. The image makes finitude the precondition of grace, not its opposite.
_Source: Project Gutenberg #7164 — Tagore's Gitanjali (1912 English edition) — "the divine repeatedly empties and refills with "fresh life""_
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