Question

In "A Defence of Poetry,” Shelley suggests that emotions experienced in life are constantly changing. Which lines from "Mutability” can also be seen as a reflection of this idea?

Answer 1

Answer:

In "A Defence of Poetry," Shelley suggests that emotions experienced in life are constantly changing.  The enthusiasm of virtue, love, patriotism, and friendship, is essentially linked with such emotions; and whilst they last, self appears as what it is, an atom to a universe.

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Answer 2

If the answer choices are:

Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings

One mood or modulation like that last

We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep

Nought may endure but Mutability

Answer is D: Nought may endure but Mutability

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