Question

Pen is more powerful than time and sword explain the statement with suitable examples from the poem 'not marbles,nor the gilded monuments'.

Answer 1

Pen is more powerful than time and sword indeed. The poet through his pen immortalized his friend by preserving the memory of his good deeds in the poem , 'Not Marbles, Nor the Gilded Monuments', which will be handed down from one generation to another. Neither time, nor sword could obliterate this memory. So in this sense pen is mightier than time and sword. 

Answer 2

the poet says pen Is mightier than sword because time gradually destroy everything except art and literature.The poet also by the help of the pen he had immortalized in the poem Not marble nor the gilded monuments.