Passage Summary: A critic named Lessing thinks books have to tell stories in order to be 'real' art because words come one after another. However, if we think poems that just show a bunch of random pictures are 'real' art, then Lessing's rule doesn't work.

Conclusion: The theory that literature must represent sequential events to be legitimate should be dismissed if imagist poems are considered legitimate art.

Reasoning: Lessing argues that an art form's medium determines its legitimate representation; since literature is read word-by-word, he claims it must represent sequences, but imagist poems are merely collections of unrelated images.

Analysis: This is a Sufficient Assumption question, so we are looking for a bridge that makes the conclusion follow logically from the premises. The essayist points out a conflict: Lessing says literature must be sequential, but imagist poems are just 'amalgams of disparate images.' To prove Lessing's claim must be rejected, we need to be certain that these 'amalgams' do not actually represent events in sequence. Look for an answer that guarantees imagist poems fail to meet Lessing's specific requirement for sequential representation.