Login

Summary of not marble nor gilded monuments

The summary has already been provided on our website. Kindly check and let us know if you face any problem.

  • -33
View Full Answer

5 8 lines (when wasteful ...................... memory)

These lines begin with a new idea. Shakespeare hasso far spoken of two destructive forces : time and war. Heis here describing war destroying stone structures, whichrelates back to the marble and gilded monuments in line1, that likewise do not last. The poet says that whendestructive wars will take place, they will destroy statuesalso and due to its tumult all the work of the masons willbe destroyed. Even the Sword of Mars, God of war, or thedestructive fires of war will be able to destroy yourmemory. The poet is basically saying that even wars willnot destroy the written memories of your life for they willsurvive even after deadly wars.
  • 52

William Shakespeare's sonnet Not Marble, Nor The Gilded Monuments is all about the powerful impact of time. In this poem, the poet reveals the stark reality that everything comes to an end gradually by the impact of time. Nothing in this world is permanent, everything is momentary. Time is supreme. However, the poem acknowledges the durability of the written word in comparison to other structures like marble or gold-plated structures. He feels that a literary composition like a poem can touch the hearts of many and can withstand the corrosive impact of time. The poet contrasts the power of poetry with that of monuments built by princes and kings. Wars can destroy the monuments but even the god of war cannot burn the impact of written words. The poet advises the person he loves to move forward forgetting all fears and enmity. This will keep him alive in the minds of future generation. This is the best way to live in peace till the world comes to an end.

  • 126

its just about how time destroys everything except the poem that the poet wrote

  • -5

This Shakespearean sonnet makes a very bold claim about the power of the speaker's poetry, but it would seem that the fact that wearestill reading the poetry today proves that he was right!

Sonnet 55 begins with the claim or thesis that neither "marble, notguildedmonuments of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme." He extends this idea by explaining that the goodness of the unnamed person he is writing about in this poem about 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 will not be wrecked, but live on in the 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 (beingforgotten) because he or she will "pace forth" in the words of the poem until "the ending doom." This last line in a reference to Doomsday or the Final Judgement Day saying that as long as people are around to read the sonnet(s) then the person will "live in this"(sonnet). The last words of the poem say that the person will "dwell in lover's eyes." I suspect that Shakespeare is commenting on the stereotype that it is lovers who tend to read the sonnets,and it is through lovers or lovers of poetry that the memory of the person will live on.

  • 18

THE POEM IS ABOUT THE TIME,THIS POEM SHOWS THE EVILNESS OF TIME.THIS MEAN THAT TIME IS SUPREME,IT DOESN'T WAIT FOR ANYONE.NOTHING IS PERMENT IN THIS WORLD EVEN THE GILDED MONUMENTS,ONLY THING THAT LAST FOREVER IS POEMS BECAUSE ANYONE CAN DESTROY BUILDINGS,MONUMENTS ETC BUT NO ONE CAN'T ERASE MAN'S MEMORY,POEM WILL BE MEMORISED BY OR PASS THROUGH ALL GENDRATIONS.

  • 11

vry good

  • -18
The first stanza talks about how the time doesn't destroy the poem but destroys the the magnificent structures . He tells that poetry is stronger than these structures.
  • -4
It simply says..... Time n war destroys everything including statues, monuments n other things maid by masonry....but the thing which last forever is the poem, memory....
  • -5

This Shakespearean sonnet makes a very bold claim about the power of the speaker's poetry, but it would seem that the fact that we are still reading the poetry today proves that he was right!

Sonnet 55 begins with the claim or thesis that neither "marble, notguilded monuments of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme." He extends this idea by explaining that the goodness of the unnamed person he is writing about in this poem about 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 will not be wrecked, but live on in the 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 (being forgotten) because he or she will "pace forth" in the words of the poem until "the ending doom."  This last line in a reference to Doomsday or the Final Judgement Day saying that as long as people are around to read the sonnet(s) then the person will "live in this"(sonnet).  The last words of the poem say that the person will "dwell in lover's eyes."  I suspect that Shakespeare is commenting on the stereotype that it is lovers who tend to read the sonnets, and it is through lovers or lovers of poetry that the memory of the person will live on.

  • 6
What are you looking for?