Question

Read the excerpt from "Poetry." I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine. What is the meaning of the word “contempt” in this context? misunderstanding indifference appreciation scorn

Answer 1

The answer is: scorn.  

Contempt is a feeling of disrespect or disregard - that something or someone is worthless or beneath consideration. At the same time, scorn means that something or someone is worthless or despicable.

The rest of the options are incorrect because misunderstanding is the failure to understand something correctly, indifference means lack of interest, and appreciation is the acknowledgement of something or somebody's good qualities.

Answer 2

Your answer would be scorn.