How is Mahapatra's poetry style described in contrast to that of Ezekiel?

Concept — A detail-retrieval comprehension question asks you to attach a stated attribute to the right subject. When a passage is built on paired contrasts, each sentence carries two halves — separated by a semicolon, or by a "the former … the latter" pairing — and one half belongs to each figure. The reliable method is to locate the sentence that carries the attribute the question is about, then read which half of the pair that attribute sits in, instead of picking the description that merely sounds most poetic.

Applying it here —

1. Scan the passage for the sentence about poetic style rather than biography: "Ezekiel's poetry is formally mindful; Mahapatra's poetry is written in free-flowing, sense-or idea-governed lines."

2. Split that sentence at the semicolon. The first half is attached to Ezekiel, the second half to Mahapatra.

3. Read the half attached to Mahapatra, the poet the question asks about: lines that flow freely and take their shape from sense or idea rather than from a fixed form.

4. Match that wording to the choice that describes the style as free flowing and governed by sense or idea.

Cross-check — The next sentence repeats the same split: "The former wrote realistic verse; the latter's poetry is suffused with images and symbols." "The former" is Ezekiel and "the latter" is Mahapatra, so realism stays on Ezekiel's side while image-and-symbol writing stays on Mahapatra's — which agrees with a line led by sense and idea rather than by a measured form.

Why the other descriptions do not fit —

• "Formally structured and realistic" reverses the pair: the passage attaches formal mindfulness and realistic verse to Ezekiel.

• "Written with complex rhyme schemes" has no basis in the passage, whose stylistic axis is form-consciousness versus free flow, not rhyme at all.

• "Lyrical and simple" is not the passage's term either; for Mahapatra's texture it says his poetry is suffused with images and symbols.

So the passage describes Mahapatra's style as free flowing and governed by sense or idea.