Question

How does the poet treat time in his sonnet 55.

Answer 1

He treats time as s l u ttish. As everything gets ravaged as the passes of time.It destroys many monuments and statues.It tarnishes them completely.There is no escape from it

Answer 2

The poet, William Shakespeare, in the poem, Not Marble, Nor the Guilded Monuments, treats time as an impatient, destroying and unfaithful thing which destroys everything on its path, including the statues and monuments of kings built to "immortalize" them.