"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought" is a famous line from........
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A.
Shelley's To a Skylark'
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B.
Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale'
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C.
Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper'
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D.
Coleridge's 'Christabel'
Correct Answer:
A. Shelley's To a Skylark'
Explanation:
The correct answer is Shelley's To a Skylark. This iconic line is featured in the eighteenth stanza of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1820 poem, where the speaker contrasts the pure, unalloyed joy of the skylark with the inherent sorrow of the human experience. Shelley suggests that human happiness is always intertwined with pain and that our most profound and beautiful artistic expressions often arise from our deepest grief.
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