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Ozymandias

Question
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'Nothing beside remains'. What does the narrator mean when he says these words? 

Solution

The king wanted himself and his power to be remembered by the next kings and the generations but as the time passed his traces vanished completely. The narrator wants to say no one is immortal and one's glory and power get buried in the history.

Some More Questions From Ozymandias Chapter

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing from the given alternatives.
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

(a) The person described here is …………..
     (i) P B Shelley (ii) Ozymandias (iii) the sculptor (iv) none of the above
(b) The face expresses ………………
     (i) calmness (ii) anger (iii) indifference (iv) love
(c) The word, ‘visage’ in the above lines means ……………..
     (i) vision (ii) legs (iii) lips (iv) face

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert.

(a) The poet was informed about the broken statue by.....................

(i) Ozymandias (ii) some travellers (iii) the sculptor (iv) a traveller


(b) The legs of stone belonged to....................

(i) Ozymandias (ii) the traveller (iii) the statue (iv) the poet


(c) The word, 'trunk' in this context means....................

(i) upper part of a body (ii) part of a tree (iii) legs of the statue (iv) none of the above

The poem is set in ______

The expression on the face of the statue is one of ______

This poem throws light on the ______ nature of Ozymandias. 

The sculptor was able to understand Ozymandias' ______

The tone of the poem is ______

'The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.' Whose hand and heart has the poet referred to in this line?

'My name is Ozymandias, the king of kings:' Why does Ozymandias refer to himself as king of kings? What quality of the king is revealed through this statement?

'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' Who is Ozymandias referring to when he speaks of ye Mighty? Why should they despair?