Half sunk and shatter visage leis whise frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold commant ! Bring out the charrcters of ozymandias based on this two lines
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Explain and comment on the following lines from Shelley's sonnet "Ozymandias." Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command...
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This piece is about an ancient pharaoh:
Ozymandias was another name for Ramesses the Great, Pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt.
In Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet, "Ozymandias," these lines are describing parts of a larger statue being relayed to the speaker by a "traveler from an antique land." In essence, the speaker runs into a man who has just visited Egypt and the next seven lines make up that traveler's report with regard to the statue he found (of Ramses II) ruined—over many long years—in the sand.
The lines previous to these indicate a once-imposing statue that stood in the sand, as part of a great empire ruled by the once-powerful (and now, long-dead) pharaoh.
In the traveler's descriptions, makes note of...
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone [that]
Stand in the desert.
Then the traveler told the speaker of the pieces of the statue that...