Evening: Ponte Al Mare, Pisa By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, famous for his immortal lyrics. A radical in his poetry as well as his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley is perhaps best known for such poems as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy. His other major works include long, visionary poems such as Queen Mab, Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Adonais and the visionary verse dramas The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound. The text is a part of a poem published posthumously by Mrs. Shelley (1824).

The sun is set; the swallows are asleep;
The bats are flitting fast in the gray air;
The slow soft toads out of damp corners creep,
And evening's breath, wandering here and there
Over the quivering surface of the stream,
Wakes not one ripple from its summer dream.

There is no dew on the dry grass to-night,
Nor damp within the shadow of the trees;
The wind is intermitting, dry and light;
And in the inconstant motion of the breeze
The dust and straws are driven up and down,
And whirled about the pavement of the town.
Within the surface of the fleeting river
The wrinkled image of the city lay,
Immovably unquiet, and forever
It trembles, but it never fades away.

1.
Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives:
1. In the evening city of Pisa, the bats were
  1. falling asleep
  2. creeping out of damp corners
  3. fitting fast in the grey air
  4. wandering here and there
2. The wrinkled image of the city on the fleeting river
  1. remains unchanged
  2. changes with the passage of time
  3. changes according to the change of seasons
  4. changes with the change in human nature
3. The motion of the breeze was
  1. inconstant
  2. mild
  3. violent
  4. slow
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(iii) fitting fast in the gray air
(i) remains unchanged
(i) i

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Evening: Ponte Al Mare, Pisa

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