'My love is of a birth as rare / As 'tis for object strange and high; / It was begotten by despair / Upon impossibility.' Name the poem.

1. A'The Garden'
2. B'An Horatian Ode'
3. C'The Definition of Love'
4. D'To His Coy Mistress'

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Correct answer: C. 'The Definition of Love'

Explanation

The opening stanza of Marvell's 'The Definition of Love': a perfect love, like parallel lines, that Fate keeps from ever meeting.