Read the lines from shakespeare’s “sonnet 55.” when wasteful war shall statues overturn, and broils root out the work of masonry, nor mars his sword, nor war’s quick fire shall burn the living record of your memory. which response most accurately explains the meaning of the lines? a) many people will try to fight against the speaker’s love for the subject of this poem, but their true love will prevail. b) war, represented metaphorically by the god mars, cannot harm a poetic tribute of love. c) although the physical poem may be burnt in a war, the speaker will remember his love forever. d) the speaker is in love, but he must figuratively pick up mars’s sword and leave his lover to fight in a war.

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.