Class 10 NCERT Solutions English Chapter 9 - Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55)
Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55) Exercise 102
Solution 1a
This answer depends on your views and opinion about the image. You may use the following points to write this answer.
A few guidelines:
- Time has been portrayed as a man with a signboard.
- The signboard could have various tasks that need to be completed
- Time has been shown like a man leading the way
Solution 1b
This answer depends on your views and opinion. Hence, it is recommended that the following points used to write your own answer.
A few guidelines:
Other symbols associated with time are an hourglass, footprints on the sand, the sun, moon, tides, nature etc
Solution 2a
It is recommended that you answer this question on your own.
Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55) Exercise 103
Solution 2b
It is recommended that you answer this question on your own.
Solution 3
The student needs to read the two sonnets.
Solution 4
The activity is to be carried out by the student.
Solution 5
The student is supposed to read the sonnet.
Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55) Exercise 104
Solution 6a
(iv) be remembered till posterity
Solution 6b
(iii) the person he loves
Solution 6c
(i) the sonnet the poet has written for his friend
Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55) Exercise 105
Solution 6d
(iii) loving
Solution 6e
(iv) the poet's study where he is writing
Solution 7a
The rich and powerful people get monuments and statues erected in their memory, so that they will be remembered forever by people of their and future generations. They are trying to ensure that they are remembered for posterity.
Solution 7b
Monuments and statues brave the ravages of nature and remain silent witnesses of the passage of time. However, if left uncared for, the passage of time leaves them spoiled, and disfigured.
Solution 7c
A sluttish person is someone with unclean habits and behaviour. Such a person is bound to spoil the things and atmosphere around him. Time has been referred to as 'sluttish' by the poet because its agents such as air and water ruin monuments with their force. Human catastrophes like wars are also responsible for destroying the beauty of things and ruining them.
Solution 7d
These lines reveal the poet as a confident and an optimistic individual. The poet also wants to bring out the immortality and permanence of his works.
Just as time and nature are immortal, similarly the poet will live on through his poetic works for generations to come.
Solution 8
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Rhyme scheme |
Theme |
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Quatrain 1 |
abab |
Comparison between poetry and monuments. |
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Quatrain 2 |
cdcd |
Ravages of time on monuments contrasted with living record of his beloved's memory. |
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Quatrain 3 |
efef |
The recorded memory of his beloved shall be remembered for posterity |
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Couplet |
gg |
Poetry immortalises friend |
Solution 9a
The examples of alliteration used in the poem are:
Not marble, nor the gilded mountains.
Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
Solution 9b
Shakespeare has used personification in the sonnet to attribute human characteristics to time and its agents. He calls time 'sluttish' because it will spoil monuments and structures with its force. However, Shakespeare says that time cannot destroy his poem. Thus, here he personifies his rhyme. He has also said that his poem will outlive something as strong as marble and go beyond the durability of monuments.
