Poem
Essay
Write five to six sentences explaining how the ideas in
"Mutability" show one or more ideas expressed in "A
Defence of Poetry " Use examples from the essay and
the poem in your answer
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
Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings
Give various response to each varying blast,
To whose frail frame no second motion brings
One mood or modulation like the last
We rest A dream has power to poison sleep,
We rise. One wandering thought pollutes the
day
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep.
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away
It is the samel-For be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free: