NOT MARBLE, NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS ( WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE )

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor. He was born on 26 th April 1564 in Stratford-upon- Avon. His father was a successful local businessman and his mother was the daughter of a landlord. Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s most pre-eminent dramatist. He is often England’s national poet and nicknamed the Bard of Avon. He wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and a few other versus of which the authorship of some is uncertain.

SUMMARY This sonnet 55 of Shakespeare begins with the calm or thesis that “neither marble, not gilded monuments of princess, shall outlive this powerful rhyme”. He extends this idea by explaining that the goodness of unnamed person he is writing ‘bout in this poem will last forever and not be besmeared with sluttish (dirty) time. He continues his point in the next quatrain when he explains that wars destroy things that are made by men, but the person who is the subject of this poem which will serve as a living memory. The last quatrain continues this theme, saying that because of the poem, even the death of the person will not end him or cause oblivion because he or she will pace forth in the words of the poem until the ending doom. This last line refers to the doomsday or the final judgment saying that as long as people are surround you will live in this sonnet. The last words of the poem says that the person will dwell in lover’s eye.

1.ALLITERATION :- a)Repetition of /n/ sound. eg- Nor marble, nor the gilded monuments. b)Repetition of /s/ sound. eg- But you shall shine more bright in these contents. c)Repetition of /w/ and /s/ sound. eg- When wasteful war shall statues overturn. 2. Personification :- a)Your praise shall still find room. 3.Hyperbole :- a)Shall outlive this powerful rhyme.

1.The rich and got ornate monuments made in order to _________. Ans. Be remembered till posterity. 2. The poet addresses his sonnet to________. Ans. The person he loves. 3. In the line ‘the living record of your memory’, living records refer to_______. Ans. The sonnet the poet written for his friend. 4. The poets tone in the poem is ________. Ans. Loving. 5. The poem is set in _________. Ans. The poets study where he is writing. Fill in the blanks…

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