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English Presentation On : - Not Marble, Nor The Gilded Monuments - William Shakespeare

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English Presentation On :-

Not Marble, Nor The Gilded Monuments

-William Shakespeare

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1- About The Poet

2- The Sonnet

3- Not Marble Nor The Gilded

Monuments

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• Personal Life

• Shakespeare The Poet

• The Plays Of Shakespeare

•Awards

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Personal Life

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The Plays of Shakespeare

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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.

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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,AB

2) Second quatrain: This should develop the sonnet’s theme.Number of lines: 4. Rhyme Scheme: CD,CD

3) Third quatrain: This should round off the sonnet’s theme.Number of lines: 4. Rhyme Scheme: EF,EF

4) Fourth quatrain: This should act as a conclusion to the sonnet.Number of lines: 2. Rhyme Scheme: GG

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:- ‘Gainst death, and all oblivious enmity

Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find

room

Even in the eyes of all posterity

That wear this world out to the ending doom.

So, till the judgment that yourself arise,

You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.

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:- This stanza does not talk about survival, but ofhuman appreciation. The poet continues to praise hissubject. There is still a suggestion of survival, butsurvival of human appreciation and not of the verseitself. Doom refers to the Judgment day, suggestingthat this poetic record of his subject will survive and bepraised to the end of time. Slight deviation of themetre in the words Even in creates emphasis for thispermanency . The poet is saying that death and enmitydestroys everything but poetry written on the subjectwill survive , will move ahead, find place and will beimmortalized for all generations to come. Everythingelse will be judged on the Judgment Day.

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In this poem Shakespeare addresses the qualities ofhis beloved. His poetry will immortalise his beloved.He is sure that his poetry will last longer than themarble or gold plated monuments and statues andmonuments of big and powerful monarchs and princes.Thus the image of his beloved portrayed in his poetrywill shine more brightly than the gold platedmonuments. He reiterates that wars and the forces ofnature may affect the ornate monuments and statues,but cannot destroy his poetry. The recorded memory ofhis beloved in his poetry will live till prosterity. In thelast couplet of the sonnet, Shakespeare asserts thatpoetry as an art is permanent and therefore poetrywill immortalise his beloved.

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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

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