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• How does the time destroy the monuments and memorials ?
• Why does the poem refer to ‘Time’ as being sluttish ? 
• How has the poet personified time ?
• How will the ‘living record’ of the poet’s beloved and his memory be more powerful than wasteful wars ?
• How will the living record of the memory remain according to the poet in ‘Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments’ ?
• Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :“Nor Mars his sword nor war’s quick fire shall burnThe living record of your memory‘Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth.”(a) The ‘living record of your memory’ is .................. .(b) The word ‘your’ represents .................. . (c) ‘Mars’ in the above lines is .................. . (d) Find out the word which means ‘fighting, disturbances in war.’
• Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :When wasteful wars shall statues overturn,And broils root out the work of masonry,Nor Mars his sword nor war’s quick fire shall burnThe living record of your memory.(a) What will the wasteful wars do ?(b) What will be the living record of the poet’s friend ?(c) The poetic device used in the phrase ‘wasteful wars’ is .................. .(d) The rhyme scheme used is .......... .
• How will posterity remember the poet’s friend ? 
• In the poem, “Not Marble ......”, what difference does the poet bring out between his rhyme and the monuments ?
• Not marble, nor the gilded monuments………………………….…………….. with sluttish time.Explain the above poem line.