“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”- Who wrote this?
Answer: D) P.B. Shelley
- A) William Blake
- B) S.T. Coleridge
- C) Lord Byron
- D) P.B. Shelley
Explanation
P.B. Shelley wrote the line. It closes his "Ode to the West Wind" (1819), where winter stands for hard times and spring for renewal: bad days pass and better ones follow. Blake, Coleridge and Byron were Shelley's contemporaries but did not write this ode.
Asked in: BCS 2018
Topic: English Literature