Look at the picture given below :

While on sight-seeing tour to an old

place far away from your home ,
you saw this statue
Now discuss with your partner
what it tells you about the People,
the Place and the Ruler.

Note down your ideas in the web- chart.

The statue
:brokenface,face is.

The place: sand ,

desert..

My
impressions..

The ruler must have

been

The people

OZYMANDIAS
BY:- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

MORE ABOUT THE POET

Name: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Famous as:-Romantic and Lyric Poet.
Born on:-04 August 1792.
Born in:-Horsham, England.
Died on:-08 July 1822.
Nationality:-United Kingdom.
Works & Achievements:-The Revolt
of Islam, The Masque of Anarchy and
Men of England.

MORE ABOUT THE POET

Percy Bysshe Shelley, who qualified as a Romantic

by the exacting test of expiring a month before his
30th birthday, became oceanic by dying in a
tempest on the Mediterranean, had Byron as a
mourner at his funeral pyre, and was in any case
partly exempted from the latter's contempt by the
otherwise extremely stormy career that he pursued.
He continues to lead a sort of double-life in our
literature, first as the author of such nature-loving
verses as To a Skylark and second as a
revolutionary whose work in poetry and prose was
often considered too incendiary to be published in
his own lifetime.

HISTORY OF OZYMANDIAS
Written in 1817 during a writing contest
against Horace Smith.
First published in 11/Jan/1818 in Leigh
Hunts Examiner.
Thought to be inspired by the arrival of
the statue of younger Memnon in
Britain.
A classic poem which has been studied
and dissected countless times in the
subject of English ever since its creation.

ozymandias POEM
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 wrinkled 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 the heart that fed;

Summary of the poem

Once

the poet met a traveller from the ancient

land of Egypt. He told the poet the story of an
Egyptian king named Ozymandias.
the traveller said that he had seen two huge legs
of stone standing in the desert of Egypt. The legs
were trunkless. A shattered visage lay by the side
of these huge legs. It lay half-buried in the sand.
It had a frown on its brow. It had wrinkled lips. It
had a sneering look. There was an expression of
cold command in its eyes. These things stamped
on the visage showed that the sculptor had
understood the kings passion very rightly.

SUMMARY OF THE POEM (CONT.)

The traveller told the poet that the sculptor who stamped
the kings passion on stone had died, but his art was alive.
Similarly, the king whose heart fed those cruel passion
had died, but the sign of his cruelty could still be seen.
The poet means to suggest that a man dies but his actions
outlive him.

SOME MULTILE CHOICE QUESTIONS

ON BASED OZYMANDIAS (PASSAGE
1)
I met a traveller from an
antique land
Who said : Two vast and
trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert.

Choose the correct option to

answer each question:Who had come from an antique
land?
a. The poet.
b. A traveller.
c. Ozymandias.
d. Albatross.

Who had made that

statue?
a. A poet.
b. A sculptor.
c. A king.

a. Ozymandias.
. Where

was the trunk?

a. On the legs.
b. Under a tree.
c. In the sand.
d. On the riverbank.

SOME MULTIPLE QUEDTIONS

BASED ON OZYMANDIAS (PASSAGE
2)
Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage
lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of
cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those
passion read.
Choose the correct option to
complete each sentence: These lines were written by
a. Shelley.
b. Ozymandias.
c. Shakespeare.
d. D.H. Lawrence

a.
b.
c.
d.

a.
b.

c.
d.

The visage showed

A frown.
A wrinkled lip.
A cold sneer.
All the above
The sculptor could show
those passions on the visage
because
He loved the king.
He could read those
passions in the kings
heart.
He was a qualified sculptor.
He was a learned poet.

SOME MULTIPLE QUESTIONS BASED

ON OZYMANDIAS (PASSAGE 3)
Which yet survive, stamped
on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them,
and the heart that fed;
Choose the correct
option to answer each
questions: What is which here in
the first line ?
a. Sneer of cold
command.
b. Wrinkled lip.
c. Passions of the king.
d. Feelings of
Ozymandias.

The hand that mocked........

Whose hand ?
a. Ozymandiass.
b. King's.
c. Sculptors.
d. Narrators.
What did the hand do ?
a. It sculptor the expressions
of the king.
b. It made fun of
Ozymandias by sculpting
him as such.
c. It laughed at the kings
passions.
d. It ridiculed the king.

SOME MULTIPLE QUESTIONS BASED

ON OZYMANDIAS (PASSAGE 4)
And on the pedestal these words
appear:
My name is Ozymandias, king of
kings:
Look upon my words, ye Mighty, and
despair !
Choose the correct option to answer
each questions: My name is Ozymandias, king of
kings shows the
a. Despair of the king.
b. Despair of the king and
repentance of his pride.
c. Uselessness of sneer, frown
and hatred.
d. Futility of life.

The king asks the reader to

despair because
a. Life is as such.
b. Pride, arrogance and
contempt lead one
nowhere.
c. Time is a great healer.
d. Time levels all.
Who has/have been referred
to as Mighty ?
a. The king of kings.
b. God.
c. Ozymandias.
d. The powerful men of the
world.

SOME MULTIPLE QUESTIONS BASED

ON OZYMANDIAS (PASSAGE 5)
Nothing beside remains. Round
the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless
and bare
The love and level sands stretch
far away.
Choose the correct option to
complete each sentence: Nothing remains beside
a. The desert.
b. The sculptor.
c. The poet.
d. The kings statue.

The desert sands are

a. Boundless and bare.
b. Lone and level.
c. Both (a) and (b).
d. Neither (a) nor (b).
These lines convey the
idea that
a. Truth is beauty.
b. Time and tide wait for
none.
c. Distance lends charm
to the view.
d. With time, everything
mixes with dust.

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The statue and surrounding desert

constitute a metaphor for invented
power in the face of natural power. By
Shelleys time, nothing remains but a
shattered bust, eroded visage, and
trunkless legs surrounded with
nothing but level sands that stretch
far away. Shelley thus points out
human mortality and the fate of artificial
things.

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