This is the opening line of “Mutability” by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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This is the opening line of “Mutability” by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Read the Question carefully and choose the correct option.
Match the poet with the opening line of the poem.
(A) Shelley
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats
(D) Wordsworth
(I) I cry your mercy— pity love ! aye, love!
(II) The world is too much with us
(III) O world, O life, O time
(IV) When true love burns desire is Love's pure flame
(A) Shelley – (III) "O world, O life, O time"
This is the opening line of “Mutability” by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Shelley's themes often revolve around transience, time, and philosophical introspection — all of which are central to this line.
✅ So, A-III is correct.
(B) Coleridge – (IV) "When true love burns desire is Love's pure flame"
This line is from Coleridge’s poem "Love", which explores deep emotional and passionate experiences.
The theme of idealized, intense romantic passion fits Coleridge’s romanticism and mysticism.
✅ Hence, B-IV is correct.
(C) Keats – (I) "I cry your mercy— pity love! aye, love!"
This line is from John Keats’s poem “To A Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown”.
It exhibits Keats’s early style of romantic fervor, deep emotion, and ornamental diction.
✅ So, C-I is correct.
(D) Wordsworth – (II) "The world is too much with us"
This is the famous opening line of Wordsworth’s sonnet “The World is Too Much With Us”.
It reflects Wordsworth's disapproval of industrial society and detachment from nature.
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