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Saturday, August 1, 2015

"Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,/ When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st (11-12)"-----Explain the lines.

Here’s where the poem starts to move into more meta territory, bringing out that central issue of immortality through artistic representation. First we get to see a real-life example of artistic immortality, as lots of readers will recognize the "death" through whose "shade" we wander from another famous work of literature: the Bible (and specifically Psalm 23:4). Here’s a character who seems to have gained some literary immortality, since so many people read the Bible. Then the speaker gets even more assertive, ....................................... 

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