what did the hand mocked at in the poem Ozymandias
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What do these two lines from the poem mean: "the hand that mocked them.............." "look on my works ye mighty and despair!"
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upasanarohit,
Lines 4–8 are unclear, for it is not certain if “the hand . . . and the heart” belong to the sculptor, in which case the idea is that the sculptor “mocked” (“mimicked,” “imitated in stone”) the passions and “fed” them by creating them in stone, or if the hand and the heart belong to Ozymandias, whose hand mocked the passions of his foes and whose
heart fed his own passions.
HOMEWORK HELP > OZYMANDIAS
What do these two lines from the poem mean: "the hand that mocked them.............." "look on my works ye mighty and despair!"
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upasanarohit,
Lines 4–8 are unclear, for it is not certain if “the hand . . . and the heart” belong to the sculptor, in which case the idea is that the sculptor “mocked” (“mimicked,” “imitated in stone”) the passions and “fed” them by creating them in stone, or if the hand and the heart belong to Ozymandias, whose hand mocked the passions of his foes and whose
heart fed his own passions.
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