- Percy Bysshe Shelley was a famous Romantic poet from the United Kingdom who lived from 1792-1822. Some of his most notable works included The Revolt of Islam, The Masque of Anarchy, and Men of England. - The document then discusses Shelley's life and career, noting that he died young in a shipwreck which added to his image as a Romantic poet. It also analyzes his double life as both a nature poet and radical political thinker.

2.  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.

3.  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

4. 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.

5.  Ozymandias is a Petrarchan sonnet written in the form of Iambic
Pentameter.
 However, the rhyme scheme is different, ABABACDC-EDEFEF and
links the poem together even between the divisions through D.
 The couplets -feet- are not always iambic ( - / ) and contains
spondaic, trochaic and pyrrhic couplets, breaking the „square‟ feeling
of sonnets in general and allows the „thought‟ to flow naturally.
 Enjambment is applied to separate the octave and the sestet.
 Each division of the poem is one continuous line of thought, adding
to the sinuous, intertwining effect.
 The diction is chosen with great care and creates a strong imagery –
as you may have noticed in the analysis.
 The notable diction of the poem is combined with alliteration to
create even more powerful imagery, such as the “sneer of cold
command.”
 Metaphorical uses help carry across the theme of the poem.

9.  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.

10. SUMMARY OF THE POEM (CONT.)
 The following words were on the pedestal of the
statue: “My name is Ozymandias. I am the king
of kings. Even mightiest of the world can never
hope to equal my achievements. If they look at
my mighty works, they will simply be filled with
despair about their own power.”
 The traveller told the port that now nothing
remained of that proud king. No trace of his
power was left on the sands of time. There was
nothing but sand round the decay of that huge
statue. It lay all in ruins. Round it the lone, level
and barren sands of the desert stretched far
away.

11. SOME MULTILE CHOICE QUESTIONS ON BASED
OZYMANDIAS (PASSAGE 1)
I met a traveller from an antique land  Who had made that statue?
Who said : Two vast and trunkless legs of a. A poet.
stone
b. A sculptor.
Stand in the desert.
 Choose the correct option to answer each
c. A king.
question:- d. Ozymandias.
 Who had come from an antique land?  Where was the trunk?
a. The poet.
a. On the legs.
b. A traveller.
b. Under a tree.
c. Ozymandias.
d. Albatross.
c. In the sand.
d. On the riverbank.

12. Near them, on the sand,  The visage showed
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose a. A frown.
frown, b. A wrinkled lip.
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold c. A cold sneer.
command, d. All the above
Tell that its sculptor well those passion  The sculptor could show those
read. passions on the visage because
 Choose the correct option to complete a. He loved the king.
each sentence:- b. He could read those passions in
 These lines were written by the king‟s heart.
a. Shelley. c. He was a qualified sculptor.
b. Ozymandias. d. He was a learned poet.
c. Shakespeare.
d. D.H. Lawrence

13. Which yet survive, stamped on these  The „hand that mocked.......‟. Whose
lifeless things, „hand‟ ?
The hand that mocked them, and the a. Ozymandias‟s.
heart that fed; b. King's.
 Choose the correct option to
c. Sculptor‟s.
answer each questions:- d. Narrator‟s.
 What is „which‟ here in the first
 What did the „hand‟ do ?
line ? a. It sculptor the expressions of the
king.
a. Sneer of cold command.
b. It made fun of Ozymandias by
b. Wrinkled lip. sculpting him as such.
c. Passions of the king. c. It laughed at the king‟s passions.
d. Feelings of Ozymandias. d. It ridiculed the king.

14. And on the pedestal these words appear:  The king asks the reader to „despair‟
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: because
Look upon my words, ye Mighty, and despair !” a. Life is as such.
Choose the correct option to answer each b. Pride, arrogance and contempt
questions:- lead one nowhere.
 „My name is Ozymandias, king of kings‟ c. Time is a great healer.
shows the d. Time levels all.
a. Despair of the king.  Who has/have been referred to as
b. Despair of the king and repentance of his „Mighty‟ ?
pride. a. The king of kings.
c. Uselessness of sneer, frown and hatred.
b. God.
d. Futility of life.
c. Ozymandias.
d. The powerful men of the world.

15. Nothing beside remains. Round the decay  The desert sands are
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare a. Boundless and bare.
The love and level sands stretch far away. b. Lone and level.
 Choose the correct option to complete c. Both (a) and (b).
each sentence:- d. Neither (a) nor (b).
 Nothing remains beside  These lines convey the idea that
a. The desert. a. Truth is beauty.
b. The sculptor. b. Time and tide wait for none.
c. Distance lends charm to the
c. The poet.
view.
d. The king‟s statue.
d. With time, everything mixes
with dust.