"To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth." - Vladimir Nabokov. Explain, in as much glorious detail as you can, why calling a story a true story is an insult to art. Then also explain why calling a story true is an insult to truth. The more thorough and thoughtful your answer is, the more extra credit you will earn.

Hey! I will try to explain it the way I know itTo call a story a true story is an insult to art because learning,reading or writing a story is never enough people will still have new ideas and new things to come about everyday if they want to write a story so saying that a story is a real story is an insult because no matter how you write the story it can never be perfect it will either have mistakes or it may not have all the perfect features in it ,and calling a story a true story is an insult to truth also because you can't lie to yourself that the story is perfect and the story is the best one you have ever seen before when people still have better ideas insteadNo matter how yiu try to perfect a story it can never be a true storyThank you for the question..I hope my answers helps you

we have no idea what story or poem you mean? ?

explanation:

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.