Identify the figure of speech in the poem"not marble nor the gilded monuments" and explain each line in context of it.
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In this sonnet Shakespeare has written about the immortality of love and poetry against the mortality of man-made structures.
In the first stanza, he is talking about the great monuments made in memory of long perished great men. Although the structures are made of gold and are magnificent to look at, they will fade with time, but the verses of poetry may certainly outlive everything else. The contents of a poem remain fresh in memory, but statues made of stone remain uncared for. The subject of a poem written with love will shine above all the things that may decay with time.
In the second stanza, the poet says that war and time are not kind to anyone and they overturn all that is precious to man. Be it a statue, or a monument, it is destroyed by the sword of war. But a verse that is penned for a beloved cannot perish at the hands of time or Mars, the God of war, and remains like a record in the mind.
In the third stanza, the poet is assuring his beloved that her praise shall find room in memory in spite of death or enmity and all the coming generations shall sing her praise till the day of judgement. Her beauty will forever remain in the eyes of her lover and this is one thing that cannot be erased by time or war.
In the first stanza, he is talking about the great monuments made in memory of long perished great men. Although the structures are made of gold and are magnificent to look at, they will fade with time, but the verses of poetry may certainly outlive everything else. The contents of a poem remain fresh in memory, but statues made of stone remain uncared for. The subject of a poem written with love will shine above all the things that may decay with time.
In the second stanza, the poet says that war and time are not kind to anyone and they overturn all that is precious to man. Be it a statue, or a monument, it is destroyed by the sword of war. But a verse that is penned for a beloved cannot perish at the hands of time or Mars, the God of war, and remains like a record in the mind.
In the third stanza, the poet is assuring his beloved that her praise shall find room in memory in spite of death or enmity and all the coming generations shall sing her praise till the day of judgement. Her beauty will forever remain in the eyes of her lover and this is one thing that cannot be erased by time or war.
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