The poet begins the poem in a story-like manner about his meeting with a traveller from an antique. The ruined, broken and destroyed sculpture stands alone ( lone) in boundless (never-ending) and bare (without grass) sand which is spread ( stretch) all over the desert. Ozymandias - Summary P.B Shellys Ozymandias is a sonnet. What remains there now is ruins ( decay) of that colossal Wreck i.e. he is dead, he ego is gone, his rule and his harsh and violent rule has gone. Stanza 4 (Lines 12-14)Īccording to the traveler, there is nothing left now i.e. He made all others bow before him and fear him. He was a powerful ruler and also was very violent who used to crush others. The words of Ozymandias represent his nature very clearly. achievements, in the war), ye (the) Mighty (powerful) and despair (i.e. On the pedestal (bottom) of the sculpture, these words were engraved – My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, Looks on my works (i.e. The skills in his hands helped him copy (mocked) the expressions and his heart inspired (fed) him to bring those expressions perfectly on the face of the sculpture. Note here how different is his condition now in the desert as compared to what it was when he was alive! According to the poet, the expressions and passions engraved ( stamped) by the sculptor (the one who made this sculpture) on the lifeless stone show how perfect he was.
As per all these expressions, we expect him to be very boastful, revengeful and egoist who would consider himself to be superior and most powerful. Cold command (emphasizing on the letter c) depicts the harshness of the commands given by that person.Ĭollectively, sneer of cold command refers to the ego, haughtiness, and harshness of the ruler. The next expression of the sculpture described by the poet is sneer of cold command. According to him, the lips of the sculpture show displeasure ( frown) and anger ( wrinkled) Stanza 2 (Lines 5-8) The traveller new describes the appearance of the face which is still visible. The phrase shattered visage here depicts the crushing of ego by Supreme Power (God). Near those two stone legs, lies a visage (head) which is half sunk in the sand. According to him, there are two vast (big) legs of stone stand in the desert without a head ( trunkless). The traveler tells the poet about and old and ruined sculpture. Hence the antique (old) land (country) here refers to old Egypt. As discussed above, Ozymandias was an Egyptian ruler (pharaoh). The statue of King Ozymandias wears an expression of hauteur, contempt, arrogance and cruel confidence even to this day. According to the poet, he meets a traveller from an antique land. The poem begins with a first-person perspective. But he had to die eventually and now there is nothing left.
#Summary of ozymandias full
He was very mighty and strong and full of ego. In this poem which is a sonnet, the poet talks about Ozymandias which is a Greek name for the Egyptian Ruler named Ramesses II.
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