One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
“Vain man,” said she, “that dost in vain assay.
A mortal thing so to immortalize,
For I myself shall like to this decay.
And eek my name be wiped out likewise.”
“Not so,” quod I, “let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name.
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.”
12. What statement does the speaker make about poetry in Sonnet 75?
Question 12 options:
A. Poetry fades away like the writing in the sand
B. Poetry has the power to make immortal the relationship between the speaker and his beloved.
C. Poetry can be used only in vain attempts
D. Poetry will disappear when death encompasses the world.
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