Multiple choice

Who wrote the following lines? “Death is the end of life; ah, why. Should life all labour be?"

  1. P.B. Shelley

  2. John Keats

  3. Lord Byron

  4. Alfred Tennyson
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Explanation

These lines are from Alfred Tennyson's poetry. The philosophical questioning of life's labor and death's finality is characteristic of Tennyson's meditative style. The lines reflect Victorian-era contemplation about life's purpose.

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