1. Answer these questions.
1. What did the traveller see in the desert?
2. Describe the face of the statue.
3. What does the face say about the sculptor of the statue?
4. Whose statue was it?
5. Whose 'hand' and whose 'heart' are being referred to in
line 8 of the poem?
6. Explain these phrases in the context of the poem:
a. a shatter'd visage
b. wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
C. colossal wreck
7. Explain the use of irony in the poem.
please give me all the answer of these question this is of the poem Ozymandias
Answers
1.The traveller saw two vast and trunkless legs which were made of stone stands in the desert.
2. The poem describes the expression on the head of the sculpture as follows: a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command. The word "frown" makes the readers assume that the model had a harsh, perhaps angry, disposition as does the phrase "wrinkled lip" which evokes sneering.
3. He, like them, was guilty of too much pride, and he, like them, was drained of life ("these lifeless things") and brought crashing back down to earth—in his case, literally. All in all then, taken in isolation, the expression on the face of the sculpture suggests an arrogant, distant, and disdainful figure
4. A mighty king
5. Shelly refers to the hand of the sculpture and the heart of the King Ozymandias.
6. a. the shattered visage means the broken face
b. The wrinkled lip suggests a disdainful attitude and hauteur. The sneer of cold command signifies the contemptuousness, alofness and pride, which tells a lot about the kings' haughty personality.
c. The poet wrote the phrase 'Colossal wreck' to denote the decay of the statue of Ozymandias and falling of it. He was a great ruler of Egypt once but then the pride of his enormous ego increased and he used to think that the almighty will look at his works and despair. So his downfall was denoted by these words
7. The irony in the poem lies in the fact that the mighty ruler had the following words engraved on his statue "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; Look upon my works ye Mighty and despair!" These words conveyed he was so powerful that no other king could surpass him