Read the passages.
"A Defence of Poetry”
Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind.
"Mutability”
We are as clouds that veil the midnight
moon;
How restlessly they speed, and gleam,
and quiver,
Streaking the darkness radiantly!—yet
soon
Night closes round, and they are lost for
ever
How does the first stanza of "Mutability” reflect the idea expressed in this excerpt from "A Defence of Poetry”?
It demonstrates poetry’s ability to make all things “immortal” by referring to images from nature that have existed for centuries.
It demonstrates poetry’s ability to send images “forth among mankind” by explaining in detail how this is accomplished.
It demonstrates poetry’s ability to “arrest the vanishing apparitions” of life by preserving an image of a fleeting moment in time.
It demonstrates poetry’s ability to portray all things as “beautiful” by taking an unpleasant image and depicting it as a lovely one.
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The first stanza of "Mutability” reflect the idea expressed in this excerpt from "A Defence of Poetry”
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- Answer: (C) “arrest the vanishing apparitions” of life by preserving an image of a fleeting moment in time.
- The poem Mutability is written by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
- The first stanza is about how restless and hurry is life of a man which is only allowed to be seen in it's inherent transient phase. He compared it with cloud. It clouds disappears from the midnight as fast as a life of a man.
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The first stanza of "Mutability” demonstrates poetry's ability to "arrest the vanishing apparitions" of life by preserving an image of a fleeting moment in time.
Explanation:
- 'Mutability' by Percey Bysshe Shelley is a poem that primarily deals with the examination of the nature of human world and its persisting element 'mutability or unreliability.'
- As per the question, the first stanza of 'Mutability' reflects the idea communicated in the given excerpt from 'A Defence of Poetry' as it illustrates the 'ability of poetry to apprehend the disappearing apparitions' of life through preserving the image of fleeting moment in time.
- Shelley reflects the idea of revamping nature of world and the brevity of life(brightness of day is closed around by night) but the poetry has the ability to preserve it for eternal time being('Poetry thus makes immortal').
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