The line 'What leaf-fringed legend haunts about the shape. Of deities or mortals or of both.' is from which poem?

• A. Ode on a Grecian Urn
• B. The Waste Land
• C. Kubla Khan
• D. To Autumn

Answer: (A)

Recognizing the line’s imagery helps you place it in a poem that questions what legends cling to a timeless object and who those legends belong to—gods, mortals, or both. The phrase about leaf-fringed legends haunting the shape of the urn points to an ancient Grecian urn and its frozen scenes, a signature moment in John Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn. In that poem, the speaker muses on how art preserves myths and moments forever, inviting us to compare living truth with art’s imagined legends. The other poems on the list explore very different themes—modern fragmentation, dreamlike vision, or nature’s seasonal cycles—and don’t contain this line. So the line belongs to the ode by Keats, the one that treats art as an enduring storehouse of legend.