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Not Marble, Nor The Gilded Monuments

-William Shakespeare

Personal LifeShakespeare The Poet

Awards

William Shakespeare

1- About The Poet2- The Sonnet3- Not Marble Nor The Gilded Monuments

Contents

William Shakespear "e was born in Stratford on about April 23rd 1564. His father was a successful local businessman and his mother Mary was the daughter of a landowner. Relatively prosperous, it is likely the family paid for Williams education, although there is no evidence he attended university.

In 1582 William, aged only 18, married an older woman named Anne Hathaway. Soon after they had their first daughter, Susanna. They had another two children but William’s only son Hamnet died aged only 11.

Personal Life

Shakespeare the Poet 

William Shakespeare wrote 154 Sonnets mostly in the 1590s. Fairly short poems, they deal with issues such as lost love.

A sonnet is simply a poem written in a certain format. A sonnet has following characteristics :-

14 lines:- All sonnets have 14 lines which can be broken down into four sections called quatrains.

A strict rhyme scheme:-  All sonnets has a strict rhyme scheme . For e.g. the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is ABAB / CDCD / EFEF / GG .

Written in iambic Pentameter:- Sonnets are written in iambic pentameter, a poetic meter with 10 beats per line made up of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables.

The Sonnet

In Shakespeare's day, actors were not greatly respected, and poets only slightly more so. Shakespeare did not receive any awards for his acting or writing. 

Awards

A sonnet can be broken down into four sections called quatrains. The first three quatrains contain four lines each and use an alternating rhyme scheme. The final quatrain consists of just two lines which both rhyme.

Each quatrain should progress the poem as follows:

1) First quatrain: This should establish the subject of the sonnet.  Number of lines: 4. Rhyme Scheme: AB,AB2) Second quatrain: This should develop the sonnet’s theme.  Number of lines: 4. Rhyme Scheme: CD,CD3) Third quatrain: This should round off the sonnet’s theme.  Number of lines: 4. Rhyme Scheme: EF,EF4) Fourth quatrain: This should act as a conclusion to the sonnet.  Number of lines: 2. Rhyme Scheme: GG

1) Explanation2) Summary3) Central Idea

Not Marble Not Gilded Monuments

Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful

rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these

contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with

sluttish time.

Explanation

# The first stanza talks about how time will not destroy the poem, though it will destroy the worlds most magnificent structures. He wishes to say that poetry is stronger than these structures. At the very beginning, the poet says that whether it is marble or gold plated monuments of princes, all will get destroyed but the magnificence of his poetry will live. The subject of poetry will remain bright and will shine forever in comparison to a neglected stone monument which is spoilt with time . Time is compared to a slut who loses her glow and beauty with time.

:- When wasteful war shall statues overturn

And broils root out the work of masonry,

Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn

The living record of your memory.

These lines begin with a new idea. Shakespeare has so far spoken of two destructive forces : time and war. He is here describing war destroying stone structures, which relates back to the marble and gilded monuments in line 1, that likewise do not last. The poet says that when destructive wars will take place, they will destroy statues also and due to its tumult all the work of the masons will be destroyed. Even the Sword of Mars (God of war) or the destructive fires of war will be able to destroy your memory. The poet is basically saying that even wars will not destroy the written memories of your life for they will survive even after deadly wars.

:- ‘Gainst death, and all oblivious enmityShall you pace forth; your praise shall still find roomEven in the eyes of all posterityThat wear this world out to the ending doom.So, till the judgment that yourself arise,You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.

:- This stanza does not talk about survival, but of human appreciation. The poet continues to praise his subject. There is still a suggestion of survival, but survival of human appreciation and not of the verse itself. Doom refers to the Judgment day, suggesting that this poetic record of his subject will survive and be praised to the end of time. Slight deviation of the metre in the words Even in creates emphasis for this permanency . The poet is saying that death and enmity destroys everything but poetry written on the subject will survive , will move ahead, find place and will be immortalized for all generations to come. Everything else will be judged on the Judgment Day.

The ending couplet is a summary of the survival theme. The couplet not only summarises the rest of the sonnet, but also seems to contradict itself. Judgment goes with the talk of the judgment day in the last stanza , but implies that the subject is alive and will be judged on that day, but dwelling in lovers eyes suggest that the subject is love itself. Thus Shakespeare seems to consider the subject so lovely that he is a personification of love , which could be conquered and to which no poetry can do justice. So the theme of the sonnet is that the subject will be honoured forever in the verses, though the verses are unworthy of them.

Absolutely confident of his writing skills, the poet claims that his poetry would outlive the ornate marble statues and gold plated monuments built by rich and the powerful. As a result the name of his friend who is referred to in his verse would live for a much longer time than the monuments that would stand neglected and tarnished with the passage of time. The destructive wars would leave no trace of the statue and the havoc created by them would raise all the magnificent monuments to the ground.

Summary

However neither wars nor their devastation would wipe out the memory of ones eulogised in the verses of the poet.Neither death, nor the enemy’s bias would adversely affect their reputation and they would continue to be praised by generations to come till the doomsday. The poet wishes this praise worthy soul to live in his poetry and in the hearts of his admirers till he finally rises from his grave like all the other souls and is rewarded by God almighty

The poem underlines the idea that art lives longer than life.

Big monuments and tall statues crumble down but the poems written in their praise outlive them.

Whereas worldly things are transitory, poetry is eternal

Moral of the lesson