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Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
About Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a revolutionary in his poetry as well as in his political and social views. Shelley was not famous during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew following his death. Shelley is best known for such classical poems as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind and To a Skylark.
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said - "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert..... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkeld lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and he heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear;
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.''
Available Answers
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Where had the traveller came from?
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Describe the statue seen by the traveller.
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How do we know that the sculptor understood well and skillfully converted to stone, the personality of his subject?
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Look on my Works, ye Might , and despair! Who says that ? Who is he referring to when he speaks of ‘ye Might’? Why should they despair?
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Identify and rewrite the lines from the poem spoken by the narrator, the traveller and Ozymandias.
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By last three lines of the poem what impression do we get of the statue and its surroundings?
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