Answer:
Violence and destruction
Explanation:
Shakespeare's Sonnet 55 is a piece of poetry assumed to have been written by William Shakespeare to immortalize a friend. We can see that violence and destruction is a motif in the excerpt provided, from words directly referring to such events as 'war'; phrases conveying destruction of buildings and artwork such as 'statues overturn' and 'root out the work of masonry', as well as a reference to the Roman God of War himself, Mars.
