![]() What are the major teachings we acquire from this poem?Īns. However, the poet also conveys the power of art, which can outlive its creators and becomes immortal. Everything in this world is time-bound and not immortal. This poem explains the ultimate truth of human lives, that nothing is permanent. What message is conveyed through this poem?Īns. He was the most powerful king of his time. Ozymandias was a very powerful, boastful and arrogant ruler. What is your impression of Ozymandias as a king?Īns. The narrator wants to say that humanity is bound by time and every life and every creation will be extinct one day. 'Nothing beside remains.' What does the narrator mean when he says these words?Īns. The sculptor and Ozymandias thought of his creation to last forever but it was the story and tales of the travellers that lasted longer. The poem shows the irony of Ozymandias and other rulers like him, but it also shows the irony of temporariness of humanity. He is telling them to despair because they cannot be as great as he was.Īns. Ozymandias is talking to other rulers who came after him. "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Who is Ozymandias referring to when he speaks of ye Mighty? Why should they despair?Īns. Ozymandias refers to himself as the king of kings because he was the most powerful king of his time, and it shows the powerful and arrogant nature of the king. Why does Ozymandias refer to himself as King of Kings? What quality of the king is revealed through this statement?Īns. The hand refers to the hand of the sculpture. The heart refers to the King’s heart whose sculpture was made. "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed." Whose hand and heart has the poet referred to in this line?Īns. Arts in forms of stories and tradition will flourish for generations. The author tries to convey that only one thing which can be saved from the brute force of nature is art. Nature is the true enemy of monuments and glorious statues. In this poem, the author has tried to show that no matter how powerful a person becomes and no matter how much wealth and glory he acquires, he cannot become immortal and that glory will not last forever. This shows that the materials in the world are one day destroyed but the only thing which is not affected by time is arts and stories. But over time, all the glory and monuments were destroyed and the only thing that remains are the engravings. They had engraved the statue to show his greatness and to show to other kings his power and glory. The poet thinks about the irony of the situation. The inscriptions were written to show the glory and greatness of Ozymandias but all of it is lost to nature. ![]() The engravings on the sculpture made no sense now. The traveller praises the sculptor as he had accurately depicted the egoistic and arrogant face of the king in the sculpture. There were only ruins to support the claims of Ozymandias. but the traveller found that hard to believe as, the statue and all the glory of that great kingdom were destroyed by nature. ![]() The inscriptions were directed to all the other kings who came after him and claimed that none of them could reach the heights of glory as the Ozymandias reached. The inscription says that he was king of kings and a very powerful king. The inscription on the statue tells that it was a statue of the great king Ozymandias. There once used to be a big empire and great monuments. The statue was in the middle of now where in the desert. He then saw the face of the statue laying some distance away from the legs. The statue was destroyed and only the legs were left. He tells the story of a stone statue that he found in the middle of the desert. ![]() The traveller tells the poet about his adventures. The poet meets a traveller who had come from the old land. This poem shows that no matter how powerful a person is or how magnificent a statue is, it all will eventually fall but the stories and art will live forever. The statue was of the famous king Ozymandias. A traveller tells the story of a stone statue that he interacted with in the desert. This is a poem about the temporariness of human life. The poem Ozymandias is one of the most famous creations of P.B. ![]()
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