The critics were distressed that an essayist of such glowing … could descend to writing such dull, uninteresting prose.

a. obscurity

b. ill-repute

c. shallowness

d. promise

e. amiability

- "is not only a luminous passive watcher in the night sky, but it is a powerful force.

it does symbolizes love,   lust   and dreaming and is seen as a power symbolic force that determines and affects human behaviors and reactions.

in the context of the question it does remain you that he events are only taking place at night and the reader of the passage of time."

is it "means of nourishment"