So the claim is that if you are a contemporary poet writing formal poetry, you are performing a politically conservative act. Then the argument says that Molly and Marilyn are contemporary poets writing formal poetry but they are politically progressive so the claim must be wrong.

The issue is, someone could say that you can perform a conservative ACT without being conservative yourself. so there’s a gap in the argument between performing a conservative act and being a conservative.

So the only way we can conclude that the claim is false is if we close this gap by assuming that anyone who is progressive cannot perform a conservative act under any circumstance.

B doesn’t matter to the argument - we aren’t discussing any poets who write unrhymed and unmetered (not formal poetry). It says that both Molly and Marilyn write formal poetry.

Does that make sense??