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question_answer1) Read the following extract and answer the question that follow. (1 x 3 = 3) Not marble, nor the gilded monuments of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than un swept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. (a) What does the word 'marble' refer to? (b) What does the phrase 'In these contents' refer to? (c) What does the phrase "Than un swept stone" mean.
question_answer2) Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow. (a) When wasteful war shall statues overturn, (b) And broils root out the work of masonry, (c) Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. (a) What is meant by 'wasteful war'? (b) What does the word 'mars' in the third line refer to? (c) What does the phrase, The living record of your memory's mean?
question_answer3) Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow. (1x3=3) 'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room, Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. (a) What is meant by the word 'Gainst'? (b) Explain "your praise shall still find room". (c) What does the word 'Doom' refer to?
question_answer4) Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow. So, till the judgement that yourself arise, You live in this and dwell in lover's eyes. (a) 'you live in this'. What does 'this' refer to? (b) When does the poet expect that his beloved shall arise? (c) What is meant by the word 'dwell'?
question_answer5) After reading the poem "Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments" what image of the poet is formed in your mind? What quality of the poet is revealed through the poem?
question_answer6) "When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry." War is destructive in nature. It does not see anything or anybody when it comes to leave villages, towns, cities and kingdoms empty and without people. Now, write an article on the topic 'War is wasteful.'
question_answer7) "But you shall shine more bright in these contents?" Comment.
question_answer8) Write a note on the theme of the sonnet, "Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments."
question_answer9) Explain "Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme".
question_answer10) What purpose do the statues and monuments serve?
question_answer11) Describe how the monuments and statues brave the ravages of time.
question_answer12) Explain "Gainst death and all oblivious enmity".
question_answer13) Why does the poet refer to time as being sluttish?
question_answer14) Why do you think the rich and powerful people get monuments and statues erected in their memory?
question_answer15) How would wars prove ineffective in tarnishing the living record of 'your' memory?
question_answer16) The poet says that neither forces of nature nor wars can destory 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 thought these lines?
question_answer17) How does the poet glorify the power of poetry?
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