FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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People will read about him in his poems
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he will die and go to heaven
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he will fall out of line
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People will know him because of his beauty
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shakespeare says his ‘fair youth’ will live on forever in his “eternal lines.” What does this mean? What proof does the speaker offer for his assertion in Sonnet 18, his Friend’s “eternal summer shall not fade"? The friend will live in heaven. The speaker’s love will prevent the friend from dying.
Detailed explanation-2: -The phrase ‘eternal summer’ refers to the everlasting beauty of the poet’s friend. ‘Eternal summer’ means timeless beauty. The poet’s friend is lovelier and more temperate than the summer’s day, free from the decline of the ‘fair’ things and his beauty is beyond the power of death.
Detailed explanation-3: -The “Fair Youth” is the unnamed young man addressed by the devoted poet in the greatest sequence of the sonnets (1–126). The young man is handsome, self-centred, universally admired and much sought after. The sequence begins with the poet urging the young man to marry and father children (sonnets 1–17).
Detailed explanation-4: -The poet makes this known particularly in the lines “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see / so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” While the poet is saying that his beloved’s beauty will last for as long as this poem exists, he is also saying that his poetry will be eternal.
Detailed explanation-5: -When Shakespeare says the woman will “grow” within the “eternal lines to time” he means that people will remember her because they remember the poem. He closes with “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see/ so long lives this [the poem] and this gives life to thee."