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Not Marble Nor The Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55)
Question
The poem is set in ____
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the place where the poet's meets his friend
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a battlefield where the poet meets his friend
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a city ravaged by the war
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the poet's study where he is writing.
Solution
D.
the poet's study where he is writing.
Some More Questions From Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55) Chapter
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?
Rhyme scheme
Theme
Quatrain 1
Comparison between poetry and
monuments
Quatrain 2
Ravages of time on monuments
contrasted with _____________
Quatrain 3
The recorded memory of _____
______________ posterity
Couplet
Poetry immortalises friend
monuments
contrasted with _____________
______________ posterity
The poet uses alliteration to heighten the musical quality of the sonnet. Working in pairs, underline the examples of alliteration in the poem.
Identify Shakespeare's use of personification in the poem.
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