Question

Which statements best describe how “mutability” reflects the idea in this excerpt? Check all that apply.

Answer 1

It is a poem about life and human nature.

Answer 2

The correct options are:

It is a poem about life and human nature.

3. It uses images to express universal truths about life.

Percy Bysshe Shelley´s poem, Mutability, appeared in the 1816 collection The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems. In his ‘A Defence of Poetry,’ he explains that a man should make the pains an pleasures of humanity in order to be good. And ‘ Mutability ’ is the poem Shelley uses to show humanities fleeting and irrelevant nature.