NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Literature Reader Chapter 9 Not Marble Nor The Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55)

The rich and powerful got ornate monuments made in order to ____

• show off their wealth 

• display their power 

• show their artistic talent

• be remembered till posterity.

The poet addresses his sonnet to ____

• time 

• war

• the person he loves 

• powerful rulers.

In the line 'The living record of your memory', living record refers to ____

• the sonnet the poet has written for his friend 

• an existing statue of his friend

• his friend who lives in the poet's memory 

• the autobiography of the poet's friend. 

The poet's tone in the poem is ____

• despairing 

• optimistic 

• loving 

• admiring

The poem is set in ____

• the place where the poet's meets his friend

• a battlefield where the poet meets his friend 

• a city ravaged by the war 

• the poet's study where he is writing.

Why do you think the rich and powerful people get monuments and statues erected in their memory?

Describe how the monuments and statues brave the ravages of time.

Why does the poet refer to Time as being sluttish?

The poet says that neither forces of nature nor wars can destroy his poetry. In fact, even godly powers of Mars will not have a devastating effect on his rhyme. What quality of the poet is revealed through these lines?