A poem by P.B.Shelley creating a sense of Mystery about ancient legends and the ability of artist to sculpt the exact human emotion and expression in sculpture and modern insight of having or searching for the ray of 'Hope' and showing the permanent glories of King Ramses_II with a message.

1. Name: Hirani Khushboo A.
M.A.Sem_III
Poem : Ozymandias
By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

2. OZYMANDIAS “I met a traveler 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 …”
• Antique Land- Old land of Egypt
• Trunkless Legs- Without the upper part of body
• Sunk- Drowned
• Shattered visage – Broken or Damaged face

3. “Whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passion read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and heart that fed;”
• Frown- Expression of Anger
• Sneer- to look down upon someone
• Cold- Lacking expression and feelings for others
• Command – Domination
• Passion – Expression on the face of the king engraved
• Mocked- Copied

4. “And the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymadias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty and despair!”
• Pedestal- Base of statue platform
• Ye- You
• Mighty- Refers to powerful loss of hope
• Despair – at a complete loss of hope

5. “Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
• Colossal – Extremely large or great
• Wreck – Ruin, Disaster
• Boundless – without any limits
• Bare – Without the statue of king ‘Ozymadias’
• Lone – the only survivor

6. Literary Devices
1. Synecdoche – One part represent the whole
“The hand that mocked them, the heart that fed”
2. Hyperbole – Exaggeration
“King of Kings”
3. Irony – To create mockery of something
“Look upon my works, ye mighty and despair! Nothing beside remains”
4. Alliteration – Repetition of Sounds
 Two vast and trunkless
 Cold Command
 The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed
 Boundless and bare
 Lone and level
 sands stretch
5. Oxymoron – Conjunction of contradictory terms
Colossal ( Very great) Wreck ( Finished)

7. Overview of the poem
• First person narrative technique
• Creates a sense of mystery and history of legends
• Shows the artistic ability of Sculptor through recapturing passions in
the stone(statue)
• Title of the poem informs about 13th century B.C. Egyptian King
Ramses II whom the Greeks called “Ozymandias”
• The artist become more powerful than the king.
• Chose medium of poetry in order to create something more lasting
and powerful.
• Ending without any note of ‘Hope’
• Modern perspective View: Nothing is permanent

8. Bibliography
• YouTube videos
• Wikipedia