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Not Marble Nor The Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55)
Question
Describe how the monuments and statues brave the ravages of time.
Solution
The statues and monuments are made up of metals and stones that do not corrode or break easily. They are designed in such a way that they can be protected from storms, rain, extreme temperature etc. and can be sustained for a long time.
Some More Questions From Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55) Chapter
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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