Extract Based Questions: Not Marbles Nor the Gilded Monuments - Class 10 PDF Download

Q1: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes.

(a) Who is ‘you’?
Ans: The person to whom the sonnet is addressed is being referred to, in these lines.

(b) How will he‘live’on?
Ans: He will live on in the poet’s poetic creation.

(c) Explain ‘judgement’.
Ans: The Day of Judgement or Doomsday is being referred to here.

Q2: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war’s quick fire shall bum
The living record of your memory.

(a) What are the works of masonry?
Ans: Statues and monuments built by masons are being referred to here.

(b) Who is Mars?
Ans: Mars is the god of War.

(c) What can Mars not destroy?
Ans: Mars cannot destroy the memory of the person enshrined in the poem.

Q3: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;

(a) What does the poet mean by marble?
Ans: The poet refers to statues and monuments made of marble.

(b) Who are the people who get gilded monuments made?
Ans: Princes/kings/important statesmen get gilded monuments made.

(c) What will happen to ‘marble’ and ‘gilded monuments’?
Ans: They will be destroyed by the passage of time or by the ravages of war.

Q4: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
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.

(a) What are the things that may destroy a person’s memory?
Ans: Death and decay caused by the passage of time may destroy a person’s memory.

(b) How will ‘he’ live on in people’s memory?
Ans: He will live on in people’s memory because he has been immortalised in the poet’s rhyme.

(c) Explain ‘that wear this world out to the ending doom’.
Ans: This line refers to all that will survive until the end of humanity.

Q5: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;

(a) Explain ‘gilded monuments’.
Ans: Monuments that are covered with gold or are gold-plated.

(b) What is more powerful than ‘marble’ and ‘gilded monuments’? Why?
Ans: The poet’s rhyme is more powerful as it will outlive marble statues and gold-plated monuments.

(c) Name a poetic device used in the above lines.
Ans: Alliteration: ‘Not marble, nor the gilded monuments