Question

“The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;” (i) Whose hand is being referred to in the given line? Who does the word ‘them’ refer to? [3] (ii) Explain the two meanings of the word ‘mocked’. [3] (iii) Whose heart is being referred to in the line? What had it ‘fed’? [3] (iv) Where do the passions of the old king survive? [3] (v) Explain the figure of speech in the given line​

Answer 1

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Explanation:

1) The sculptor's hand

2) 1st meaning- to laugh at somebody/something in an unkind way or to make other people laugh at him/her/it.

  2nd meaning- not real or genuine.

3) (i)King Ozymandias

   (ii)In this poem Shelley describes the remnants of a massive statue of a 'king of kings' (no false modesty here!) whose heart 'fed' on the very fact that he had the power to command such 'vast', 'mighty' things to be created.

4)The traveler, who sees the shattered statue of the once great king Ozymandias lying on the desert, says that the passions the king once felt still survive because the sculptor who made the statue captured them in the carved face of Ozymandias.

5) Synecdoche

   (explanation)Synecdoche is a word or phrase in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, or a whole is used to represent a part of something.

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