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Not Marble Nor The Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55)

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

Solution

The rich and powerful people get monuments and statues erected in their memory because they want to be remembered till posterity. 

Some More Questions From Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55) Chapter

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

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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