The lines "The loveliest and the last\The bloom, whose petals nipped before they blew\Died on the promise of the fruit" are from a poem honoring________________?
Correct answer: B. John Keats
- A. Percy Shelley
- B. John Keats
- C. Lord Byron
- D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Explanation
These lines come from Shelley’s elegy “Adonais,” written to mourn John Keats. The image of a flower dying before it blooms reflects Keats’s early death and unrealised promise.
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