FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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immortalize the poet’s love through poetry
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cheat transitoriness by stating that his love will never fade
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disparage beauty because it is short-lived
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Immortality through literature in sonnet 18 shall not fade, nor will he lose beauty, for in his verse his friend will live forever. Moreover, the final couplet reiterates that as long as humankind breathes, his poetry will live on, and hence his friend’s youth and beauty will be immortal.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare uses Sonnet 18 to praise his beloved’s beauty and describe all the ways in which their beauty is preferable to a summer day. The stability of love and its power to immortalize someone is the overarching theme of this poem.
Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 starts with a flattering question to the dear one-“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” But then he himself feels the comparison to be inappropriate. The poet finds his friend’s beauty more charming and lasting than a summer’s day.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: In these lines William Shakespeare says that there cannot be any obstacle in the union of minds of the persons who are true to each other. Here, in these lines, ‘marriage’ is signifying union, friendship and understanding. It is the marriage of true minds and not to the marriage of bodies.