Ozymandias: I am Ozymandias, king of all kings: look upon my work and be despaired by my might, which you can never surpass. It read that his name was Ozymandias, king of kings, who commanded the forthcoming rulers to look up to him, and be saddened by the fact that they can never beat the glory he had achieved. On the pedestal appeared the words of the king himself. The expression could be read very well on these lifeless things because of the sculptor’s artistry. The face also held a hostile expression of cold command. Near them lay a shattered face, which had a frown and a wrinkled expression on his face. The Traveler: Two huge yet without the upper part of the body sculptures stood in the desert. The Narrator: The narrator starts the poem with the introduction as to how the traveller had narrated his trip to the ancient land. Q6: Identify and rewrite the lines from the poem spoken by the narrator, the traveler and Ozymandias: The immutability of time has been explained through this poem. Everything in this world is time-bound and not immortal. Q5-(g): What message is conveyed through this poem?Īns: Through this poem a very important message is che ultimate truth of human lives that nothing is important. Q5-(f): What is your impression of Ozymandias as a king?Īns: To me, Ozymandias seems to be a very powerful tyrannical ruler, who was extremely boastful of himself and his kingdom. Nothing is immortal and immutable in this world. The power and popularity of the ruler descended with the descent of the ruler. Q5-(e): ‘Nothing beside remains.’ What does the narrator mean when he says these words?Īns: When the narrator says these words, he emphasises on the fact that human life is time bound. The poem primarily depicts an ironic picture of Ozymandias and other rulers like him, but it is also a prominent thought on time-bound humanity: the traveler in the ancient land, the sculptor-artist who fashioned the tomb, and the reader of the poem, no less than Ozymandias, inhabit a world that is “boundless and bare.” There is a special justice in the way tyrants are subject to time, but all humans face death and decay. They should despair, because according to him, they can’t surass his glory and power.Īns: The irony of “Ozymandias” cuts much deeper as the reader realises that the forces of mortality and flexibility, described brilliantly in the concluding lines, will wear down and destroy all our lives. Q5-(c): “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 all the other rulers to come after his reign.
The king supposedly was very powerful, aggressive, arrogant and boastful. Q5-(b): “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:” Why does Ozymandias refer to himself as King of Kings? What quality of the king is revealed through this statement.Īns: In order to emphasise on him to be the most powerful of all kings, King Ozymandias calls himself ‘King of Kings’. Q5-(a): “The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.” Whose hand and heart has the poet referred to in this line?Īns: The ‘hand’ refers to the sculptor’s hand and the ‘heart’ refers to the King’s heart. 1.1 Textbook Question Answers Ozymandias By P.
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