Read the passage from "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles."So do these wonders a most dizzy pain,That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rudeWasting of old Time—with a billowy main—A sun—a shadow of a magnitude.Now, read the passage from "Ozymandias," another poem from the Romantic period.And on the pedestal these words appear:"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far away.
Answer
A
Both passages have the theme "time erases everything."
B
"Elgin Marbles" has the theme "art outlasts even death," while "Ozymandias" has the theme "death comes to everything."
C
Both passages have the theme "nature is cruel."
D
"Elgin Marbles" has the theme "decay is inevitable," while "Ozymandias" has the theme "fame survives death."