Final answer:
The Fruitlands community in "Transcendental Wild Oats" is primarily portrayed as a flawed and impractical experiment.
Therefore, the correct answer is: option b) a flawed and impractical experiment.
Step-by-step explanation:
The theme of the story "Transcendental Wild Oats" conceptualizes nature as a pastoral utopia where farming and abstaining from all animal foods will bring you closer to God. And the Fruitlands community is primarily portrayed as a flawed and impractical experiment.
The text suggests that the community's focus on creating a perfected new social order through hard work and commitment to community ideals was ultimately unsuccessful and unsustainable.
The example provided in the text is that of the Brook Farm community, which was an intellectual experiment that overlapped with the transcendental movement but ultimately collapsed.
The poem recounts Larkin's real life experiences, as he was once engaged to a woman called Ruth Bowman who had a beautiful friend named Jane Exall, whom Larkin was in love with.