Read the passage from "A Defence of Poetry.”A poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one; as far as relates to his conceptions, time and place and number are not.In his poem "Mutability,” Shelley

In “Mutability,” Shelley emphasizes that nothing in human life remains the same. The poem says, “Nought may endure but Mutability,” meaning change itself is the only constant. This contrasts with the passage’s idea that a poet’s conceptions participate in what is eternal and beyond time, so the correct choice is “contradicts this idea by focusing on the inevitability of change.”

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