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SHAKARGARH the sand nearby. The anger, pride and

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OZYMANDIAS statue.
P.B SHELLEY 2. WHAT DID THE FEATURES OF THE STATUTE
1. 4 August 1792 8 July 1822 REFLECT?
2. He was one of the major English Romantic The statue had cold command and wrinkled
poets lips. The feelings of pride, anger,
3. He a glittering star in lyrical poetry mercilessness and cold command had been
4. He belonged to second generation of imprinted on the statue. They showed that
Romanticism and was considered one of the the king was proud, self obsessed and
young romantic poet merciless.
5. He liked the ideals of liberty and equality of 3. WHY DOES THE TRAVELER APPRECIATE THE
French Revolution STATUE?
6. He was greatly influenced by love of nature The traveler appreciates the art of sculptor.
7. His poetry is focused on aesthetic He has portrayed the feelings of the king,
sensuousness Ozymandias excellently. He has portrayed
8. He believed in Art for Art sake the passions of hatred, pride and self
TEXT POEM obsession. The poet enjoys the beauty of art
1. I met a traveller from an antique land on the sculpture.
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of 4. WHO WAS OZYMANDIAS?
stone Ozymandias was an Egyptian Pharaoh. the
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, 13th-century B.C. Egyptian King Ramses II,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose whom the Greeks called Ozymandias. He
frown was proud and conceited. He claimed as king
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command of kings.
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read 5. WHAT WAS WRITTEN ON THE PEDESTAL?
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless On the pedestal of the statue, there was
things, inscribed, My name is Ozymandias, king of
2. The hand that mock'd them and the heart kings, Look on my works. Ye mighty, and
that fed. despair!
And on the pedestal these words appear: 6. WHAT ARE THE FEELINGS CREATED IN THE
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: MINDS OF THE READERS?
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" The poem creates the feeling that pride hath
Nothing beside remains: round the decay a fall. Mans life is no more than an illusion.
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, Pride and power are temporary and they
The lone and level sands stretch far away. decline soon. The downfall of the king
MEANINGS creates humility in readers.
1. ANTIQUE: old, ancient, archaic, 7. WHAT IS THE MORAL LESSON?
historic The poem teaches the moral lesson that
2. VAST: huge, massive, gigantic, pride hath a fall. Human power, pride and
colossal, enormous cold command end soon. Human rise is
3. SHATTERED: broken, spoiled, subjected to decline. Man should be humble
devastated, crushed, before God. Moreover, art has everlasting
4. VISAGE: face appeal but man's life can see it.
5. FROWN: anger, scowl, grimace, 8. WHAT IS A SONNET POEM?
6. WRINKLED: lines, furrowed, A sonnet is a lyrical poem with fourteen
crumpled lines. It is mostly written in iambic
7. SNEER: hate, detest, dislike, scorn, pentameter. Petrarch is considered to be its
scoff, mock, deride, pioneer. However, Surrey and Whyte
8. SURVIVE: persist, remain, endure, introduced it into English poetry.
live on, carry on MAIN IDEA
9. STAMPED: imprinted, embossed, 1. It is a sonnet poem with fourteen lines
marked 2. It is a type of a lyrical poem
10. MOCKED: laugh, jeer 3. Mostly, a sonnet gives lyrical picture of the
11. MIGHTY: huge, massive, gigantic, poets feelings and emotions
colossal, enormous 4. Ozymandias is a satiric and didactic poem
12. DESPAIR: hopeless, disappointment, 5. It gives the pathetic picture of human
anguish, gloom, annihilation and death
13. DECAY: wreck, destruction, 6. Human life is uncertain and ends in chaos and
decomposition, perish, rot destruction
14. WRECK: ruin, decay, 7. THERE IS NO SUCH UNCERTAINTY AS A SURE
15. BOUNDLESS: endless, limitless, vast, THING.ROBERT BURNS
infinite, 8. But man lives a vain life of pride and foolishness
16. BARE: open, exposed, naked, 9. He becomes over-reacher, transgresses his
uncovered Creator and forgets, I (FIRE) AM THE DWELLING
17. COLOSSAL: huge, massive, gigantic, OF THE ARROGANT AND THE TYRANTS. HADITH
colossal, enormous 10. He forgets the reality of temporariness of human
QUESTIONS life
1. WHO TELLS ABOUT THE STATUE OF 11. The journey of human life ends in nothingness
OZYMANDIAS? OR WHAT DID THE TRAVELER 12. TILL LOVE AND FAME TO NOTHINGNESS DO
SEE IN THE DESERT? WHAT WAS THE SINKJOHN KEATS
CONDITION OF THE STATUTE? 13. The poet intends to convey the message that
A traveler found the statue of the king, power and pride are vain and temporary
Ozymandias in a desert. He had come from 14. AND WHEN I FEEL, FAIR CREATURE OF AN HOUR
an ancient land. He told the condition of the JOHN KEATS
statue of the king. The statue was broken 15. The title of the poem informs the reader that the
with two legs standing in the desert. The subject is the 13th-century B.C. Egyptian King
 Ramses II, whom the Greeks called
Ozymandias
16. He was arrogant, ruthless and self-centered
17. He hated others and considered others
18. A PROUD MAN IS ALWAYS LOOKING DOWN ON
THINGS AND PEOPLE..C.S. LEWIS
19. The traveler describes the great work of the
sculptor, who was able to capture the kings
passions and give meaningful expression to
the stone, an otherwise lifeless thing.
20. The poet shows the effects of time on time
bound things
21. But time will treat everything and everyone
equally
22. It ends mans pride and self centeredness
23. Man is defeated by the strong clutches of his
fate because Shakespeare says, MY PRIDE FELL
WITH MY FORTUNES.
24. Ozymandias is cruel and atrocious ruler.
25. He kills others with his cold command
26. He does atrocities with his people
27. He orders his statue to be set up
28. But time destroys everything
29. The statue which reflects the passions of the
king is surrounded by boundless desert
30. It symbolizes not only political downfall but also
shows the metaphor for the pride and hubris of
all of humanity
31. The condition of statue gives a moral lesson to
other human beings that pride hath a fall and
teaches that "HE WHO HAS IN HIS HEART THE
WEIGHT OF AN ATOM OF PRIDE SHALL NOT
ENTER PARADISE." HADITH
32. The poet enjoys the beauty of art in the statue
of Ozymandias
33. The poet contrasts the eternal appeal of art in
the lifeless and temporary things
34. ART IS LONG BUT MANS LIFE IS SHORT