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Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:Let me not to the marriage of true minds,Admit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alterations finds,Or bends with the remover to removeO no! it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests; and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.Love’s not Times’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks.Within his bending sickle’s compass come:Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out ev’n to the edge of doom:It tols be error, and upon me proved,I never writ, nor no man ever loved.1. Explain the following lines-If tols be error, and upon me proved,I never writ, nor no man ever loved.2. Write the summary of the poem.3. Infer the meanings of the following phrases:(i) Love is not love Which alters when it alterations find(ii) Love’s not Time’s fool(iii) Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks4. Change the following into verbs(i) alterations(ii) admittance

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1. The poet says that if anybody can prove his assertions wrong, he can admit it to be a fact that noone has loved truly in the past.

2. Shakespeare asserts that true love is constant. It does not change to convenience. It is firms as sea-mark or pole-star. Time can’t affect it. The poet is ready to stop writing poems if he is proved wrong about the constancy of true love.

3. (i) The love which changes to convenience is not a true love.

(ii) Time can’t affect the true love but physical beauty.

(iii) True love remains firm and constant even after death.

4. (i) alter

(ii) admit



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