English

Aimee Webster

18 March, 16:34

Poem 1

Mutability II

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (excerpt)

The flower that smiles to-day

To-morrow dies;

All that we wish to stay

Tempts and then flies.

What is this world's delight?

Lightning that mocks the night,

Brief even as bright.

Poem 2

Nothing Gold Can Stay

by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

3

Select the correct answer.

Which theme is shared by both poems in the passage?

A.

All good things must come to an end.

B.

Happiness depends on nature.

C.

People want too much from life.

D.

Dark times are followed by better ones.