Question

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.

Answer 1

1) He had seen a broken statue there

2) The face of statue shown a frown expression

3) face says that the king was very rude and ruthless.

4)It was the statue of king ozymandias

6c) colossal wreck refers to destroyed statue