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summary of ozymandias class 10

Answer 1

The poem’s narrator presents the reader with a stunning vision of the tomb of Ozymandias, another name for Rameses II, King of Egypt during the 13th century B.C. Shelley emphasizes that to a modern viewer this tomb tells quite a different tale than that which Ozymandias had hoped it would. The king evidently commissioned a sculptor to create an enormous sphinx to represent his enduring power, but the traveler comes across only a broken heap of stones ravaged by time. Enough of the original monument exists to allow Shelley a moment of triumph over the thwarted plans of the ruler. The face of Ozymandias is still recognizable, but it is “shattered,” and, though his “sneer of cold command” persists, it is obvious that he no longer commands anyone or anything. The vaunting words carved into the stone pedestal can still be read: “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Yet he is to be pitied, if not disdained, rather than held in awe and fear: The broken-down tomb is set in a vast wasteland of sand, perhaps Shelley’s way of suggesting that all tyrants ultimately end up in the only kind of kingdom they deserve, a barren desert. Shelley’s sonnet, however, would not be the great poem it surely is if it were only a bit of political satire. The irony of “Ozymandias” cuts much deeper as the reader realizes that the forces of mortality and mutability, described brilliantly in the concluding lines, will erode and destroy all our lives. There is a special justice in the way tyrants are subject to time, but all humans face death and decay. The poem remains primarily an ironic and compelling critique of Ozymandias and other rulers like him, but it is also a striking meditation on time-bound humanity: the traveler in the ancient land, the sculptor-artist who fashioned the tomb, and the reader of the poem, no less than Ozymandias, inhabit a world that is “boundless and bare.”

Answer 2

The speaker recalls having met a traveller from an ancient land who told him a story about the ruins of a statue in the  desert of his native country. The traveller said that two vast legs of stone stand without a body and near this, a massive  crumbling and broken stone-head lies, which is half sunk in the sand.

The statue has a bitter and cruel expression of  ‘sneer and cold command’ and this indicates that the sculptor had understood the passions of his subject really well.

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. On the pedestal of the statue these words are inscribed, ‘‘My name is

Ozymandias, I am the king of kings. If anyone wishes to know how great I am, then let him surpass any of my works.”

Around the decaying ruin of the statue, nothing remains, only the ‘lone’ and level sands’ which stretch out around it,  far away.