Question

Extract of poem Ozymandias ......​

Answer 1

The poet meets a traveler from an ancient land.

The traveler tells the poet that he has seen two huge trunk-less legs of stone

standing in the desert.

Near those legs lay a shattered and half buried face in the sand.

The face of the statue showed signs of contempt and cold command on it.

It seems that the workmanship of the sculptor who made the statue, was of a

very high order.

The sculptor had read those passions of the living man quite well. He

stamped those passions exactly on the lifeless stones.

Answer 2

The Ozymandias was a mighty king.He had defeated all other rulers that in his life.He had a sneer and arrogance.He had built his statue and asked the people to see it with awe,surprise and despair.But the irony was within the passage of time nothing remained same except his broken statue in the vast lonely sand.TIME HAD LEVELLED HIM