Question

pen is mightier than sword.
elucidate with reference to the poem not marble nor glided monument...

Answer 1

this means that bigger sword (monuments) braved many ravages of time because they face war situations etc. but a pen will not face it.so a pen is mightier than sword.

Answer 2

In this poem poet has described about the highly priced monuments, the guilded stones anf the cheapest pen. In which the words written by pen can last for centuries whereas the monuments get destroyed.