“Mutability” and “A Defence of Poetry” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question 1

Which details provide information about the idea that a poem is timeless, while a story is tied to a particular place and time? Check all that apply.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

“A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth.”; “a story is a catalogue of detached facts, which have no other connexion than time, place, circumstance, cause and effect”; “the other is the creation of actions according to the unchangeable forms of human nature”; “which is itself the image of all other minds”

Question 2

What is the effect of the words speed, gleam, and quiver? | What idea about humans is expressed through these words?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

People are constantly moving and changing.

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