Question

What does the speaker in this poem say will happen to "thy thoughts, when thou art gone"?

Music, When Soft Voices Die (To--)
by Percy Bysshe Shelley


Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory.--
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.--


Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed--
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.



The speaker will forget them.



The speaker will repress them.



They will live on forever for the speaker.



They will sicken and sadden the speaker.

Answer 1

Answer: They will live on forever for the speaker.

In the poem, the speaker start by pointing out how various art objects and living beings would eventually die or dissapear.

But in this line: Love itself shall slumber on.

The speaker indicates that the thought and emotion which created from the art would continue to lived on forever.

Answer 2

Answer: They will live on forever for the speaker.

In the poem entitled Music, When Soft Voices Die by Percy Shelley, the stanza "thy thoughts when thou art gone" means that the thought about the love of the speaker will live on forever and will serve as a remembrance of the love that they had.