UGC-NET-English

Line A:
"One day I wrote her name upon the strand/ But came the waves and washed it away"
This is from Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser, a poem in the Amoretti sonnet sequence.
→ A - IV

Line B:
"Under the greenwood tree/ Who loves to lie with me,/ And turn his merry note/ Unto the sweet bird’s note"
These lines are from William Shakespeare’s play As You Like It (Act II, Scene V), sung by the character Amiens.
→ B - II

Line C:
"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,/ The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea"
This is the opening of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray.
→ C - I

Line D:
"Remember how we picked the daffodils?/ Nobody else remembers, but I remember."
This line is from "Daffodils" by Ted Hughes (not to be confused with Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”).
→ D - III

Now, let’s check the options:
Option 2:
A - IV ✅ (Spenser)
B - II ✅ (Shakespeare)
C - I ✅ (Gray)
D - III ✅ (Ted Hughes)
✔️ All correct.