Question

Poem...Ozymandias of Egypt...1what does one see beside the ruins?​

Answer 1

Answer:

➠Nothing else remains beside the ruins of the statue. The pedestal bore the inscription that the mighty should look on his works and despair. ... As far as the eye can see, there is only sand near the ruins of the broken statue in the desert.

Answer 2

Beside the ruins one can see nothing but the vast stretch of sand.

Poet:

The sonnet "Ozymandias of Egypt" was written by an English poet called Shelley.

Summary of poem:

• The poem describes an ancient majestic statue of a tyrannic king of Egypt found in a ruined state. The poet is listening to the description of the statue by a traveller from Egypt.
• The statue belongs to the King Ramesses II who is called as the Ozymandias in Greece. The King was known for his great military excellence and his passion in building majestic architecture.
• The statue was found in a ruined state with the torso of the King missing and only the two giant legs remain standing. The pieces of statue were found scattered across the vast sand along with his broken and damaged head half-buried in the sand.