Poem 1
Mutability II
by Percy Bysshe Shelley (excerpt)
The flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow dies;
All that we wish to stay
Tempts and then flies.
What is this world's delight?
Lightning that mocks the night,
Brief even as bright.
Poem 2
Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
3
Select the correct answer.
Which theme is shared by both poems in the passage?
A.
All good things must come to an end.
B.
Happiness depends on nature.
C.
People want too much from life.
D.
Dark times are followed by better ones.