![]() ![]() (a) What does the poet mean when he says that ‘Nothing beside remains’?Īns. The lone and level sands stretch far away.’ Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare These were the sculptor’s hands that had so deftly carved and highlighted the expressions of disdain, cruelty of an arrogant king.ĥ. The expressions the sculptor had carved out remain perpetuated on stone till date.Īns. (a) Explain: yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things.Īns. The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed Which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things, The heart of Ozymandias fed the expression.Ĥ. The hand of the sculptor mocked the expression.Īns. There is an expression of contempt on the face of the statue.Īns. (a) What is the expression on the face of the statue?Īns. The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.” “Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, The sculptor had quite skilfully brought out the feelings of his subject.ģ. The face had a stern expression that of a powerful commander, who must have been very cruel and looked quite arrogant. (f) What sort of expression did the face have? Who read them well?Īns. The sculptor read the expression on the face of Ozymandias. (d) Whose expression did the sculptor read well?Īns. The half-shattered face of the statue lies near them. ‘Them’ are the two legs of the statue.Īns. ‘Near them’ refers to the two legs of the statue that were still standing.Īns. ![]() (a) What do you understand by ‘Near them’?Īns. Tell that its sculptor well those passions read.’ Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, The Traveller had seen a huge statue of a king called Ozymandias.Īns. The Traveller had come from a land where a civilisation had flourished in ancient times. (a) Whom did the poet meet? Where was he coming from?Īns. Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Read the extracts below and answer the questions that follow.ġ. What was once his empire is now a backwater - an “antique land.” Everything that he worked for and accomplished has been forgotten - his efforts were pointless. Ozymandias was so powerful in his day, but now his statues have fallen and no one knows his name. In my opinion, the theme of this poem is that human life and human accomplishments are transient. There is just a lot of sand, as far as the eye can see. On the pedestal near the face, the traveler reads an inscription in which the ruler Ozymandias tells anyone who might happen to pass by, basically, “Look around and see how awesome I am!” But there is no other evidence of his awesomeness in the vicinity of his giant, broken statue. It was obvious that the statue was of a man who sneered with contempt for those who were weaker than himself, yet fed his people because of something in his heart. The sculptor’s hands have mocked (copied) the expressions and the heart of the ruler which is depicted on the visage. The facial features have still survived which were stamped on the fragments of the statue in the desert. The poem suggests that artists have the ability to perceive the true nature of other people in the present and not just in the past, with the benefit of hindsight. He also tells that the sculptor has copied the expression in a wonderful way. He does not know who the man is but with the expression we can guess that he might be an absolute ruler. He tells that the visage has frown and wrinkled lip with a contemptuous smile. Now traveler gives a full description of the visage (face) lying in the sand. The head belonging to this statue lies on the sand half sunk nearby. The poem begins immediately with an encounter between the speaker and a traveler that comes from an “antique land.” He tells the speaker about a pair of stone legs (trunkless means without rest of the body) that are somehow still standing in the middle of the desert. The lone and level sands stretch far away.” ![]() Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,Īnd wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
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