Understanding the Poem
1. Why has the poet pitted the flight of Time against the ‘lazy
leaden-stepping hours’ and ‘the heavy Plummets pace’?
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2. What are the things associated with the temporal and what
are associated with the eternal?
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3. What guides human souls towards divinity? Who is the final
winner in the race against Time?
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Understanding the Poem
1. Why does Milton feel it is not necessary to put up a monument
in stone for Shakespeare?
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2. What does the ‘weak witaness of thy name’ refer to?
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3. How does Milton describe Shakespeare as the source of
inspiration for all succeeding generations of poets?
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4. What is the best tribute that posterity has bestowed on
Shakespeare?
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