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“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”- Who wrote this?

Answer: D) P.B. Shelley

  1. A) William Blake
  2. B) S.T. Coleridge
  3. C) Lord Byron
  4. 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