Assuming you are referring to Spenser's Sonnet 75, and Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, the correct answer is writing about people serves to immortalize them.
Both sonnets talk about love - the narrators are writing about their loved ones in order for them to stay alive through poetry and art, even when they die in real life. As long as their poetry exists, the people they wrote about will exist as well - they will be immortal, just like poetry.
Does communicate the the meaningless gestures
The king had the motive to send a message to all the subjects of his kingdom that if anybody commite a crime he will also be put in the arena and will be eaten up by ferocious animals like tiger
In the story one yound man in love of the princes which is forbidden in that country as the man is not from the family of king
So the young man was put in the arena to face a tiger.