The Test of Time
Suppose you’re a creator. Among architecture, sculpture, music, and literature, which do you think offers the most promise of an enduring monument? Explain your answer.
Frommy personal point of view, I think architecture is more likely to continue to exist through years and decades; I am a witnes of that afirmation and for sure, you are too. In our days we are able to see many amazing monuments of architecture that were done in the past-pyramids-and through them we have been able to learn about how people felt in those times, what their rituals were, the story of their people, their beliefs, etc.
In the pieces of architecture the essence of a culture or of a specific time will stay forever. Of course, architecture will not continue to esxist through years if the people is not worried about preserving them and treat them carefully to make them last.
Irony is the discrepancy between expectations and reality. Explain the fundamental irony in the sonnet.
Probably nthing is forever, I mean, you can be great and be full of wisdom and greatness…monuments can be built in your honor, but at the end nothing will remain because time destroys almost everything, you, other people, and things are very fragile and nothing is forever. You can be in the present just by uyour memory because the rest will disappear.
Discuss what you think is the speaker’s message about pride -and whether it also applies to artists.
All humans are able to feel price during their lifetime, but we all should know that it can last while we are alive but once our time is done it will dissappear with us. There is no way that your feeling would remain across time or will keep on growing as days pass, it is just a momentary feeling that as everything in life, will come to an end when you die.
Could this poem apply to any contemporary figures who wield political power? Explain.
Well, right now I do not have a particular figure in mind but I think it can be applied to every single person in this world, including political figures. As I have said before, this is a feling that every person will experience sooner or later, some will have more of it and others less but we will feel it. But as the poem says, all comes to an end and people with this feeling can end either in a good or in a bad way but anyhow this poem is applied to all humans, it is a real life poem.
