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Ozymandias
P B Shelley
About P B Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the most renowned English Romantic poets. He is best known for poems like Ode to the West Wind and Ode to a Skylark.
Ozymandias is a sonnet, which is a fourteen line poem divide into two stanzas-one of eight lines and the other of six lines. In this poem, the speaker listens to a traveller describing the ruins of a gigantic stone ordered by King Ozymandias. The speaker realise that even the most powerful and proud are mocked by Time. The statue of the once king is now a wreck in the desert.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: ‘Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear-
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains, Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.‘
Available Answers
- 1.
Where was the traveller from?
- 2.
Describe the statue seen by the traveller.
- 3.
Did the sculptor read the nature of his subject accurately? How do you know?
- 4.
What was the inscription on the pedestal of the nature?
- 5.
Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies- Who is the speaker of these lines?
- What does 'them' refer to?
- Who does the 'shattered visage' belong to? How do you think it shattered?
- 6.
Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.- What is the 'colossal wreck' and why is it decayed?
- What do the 'lone and level sands' suggest?
- What feelings can the traveller have experienced on seeing the condition of the statue?
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Answers of these questions are not. There
13 Jul 2020Archana K.