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Look at the picture given below :

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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.

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Note down your ideas in the web- chart.

The place: sand , desert…………..

The statue :brokenface,face is….

My impressions…..

The ruler must have been…………………

The people…………

OZYMANDIASBY:- 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 Hunt’s 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 landWho said: two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold commandTell 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 king’s passion very rightly.

SUMMARY OF THE POEM (CONT.)

The traveller told the poet that the sculptor who stamped the king’s 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

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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

The visage showed

a. A frown.

b. A wrinkled lip.

c. A cold sneer.

d. All the above The sculptor could show

those passions on the visage because

a. He loved the king.

b. He could read those passions in the king’s heart.

c. He was a qualified sculptor.

d. 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. Ozymandias’s.

b. King's.

c. Sculptor’s.

d. Narrator’s. 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 king’s 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 king’s 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 Shelley’s 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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