The document appears to be an analysis of the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem "Ozymandias". It begins by providing context that the poem was written during a contest between Shelley and another poet. It then summarizes the key elements of the poem, including that it describes a traveler coming upon a statue in the desert of a king named Ozymandias. The statue is broken and worn, but its inscription declares "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!". The summary concludes that Shelley uses this statue as a metaphor for the inevitable decline of invented human power and artificial constructs over time.

1. Look at the picture given below :
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2. While on sight-seeing tour to an old
place far away from your home , you
saw this statue …
Now discuss with your partner what it
tells you about the People, the Place
and the Ruler.
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3. Note down your ideas in the web- chart.
The statue
The place: sand ,
:brokenface,face is….
desert…………..
My
impressions…..
The ruler must have
been The people…………
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5. 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.

6.  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 as To a Skylark and second as a
revolutionary whose work in poetry and prose
was often considered too incendiary to be
published in his own lifetime.

7. HISTORY OF OZYMANDIAS
 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.

8. ozymandias POEM

10.  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.

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

12. SOME MULTIPLE
QUEDTIONS BASED ON
OZYMANDIAS (PASSAGE 2)
Near them, on the sand,  The visage showed
Half sunk, a shattered visage a. A frown.
lies, whose frown, b. A wrinkled lip.
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of c. A cold sneer.
cold command, d. All the above
Tell that its sculptor well those  The sculptor could show
passion read. those passions on the visage
 Choose the correct option to because
complete each sentence:- a. He loved the king.
 These lines were written by
b. He could read those
a. Shelley. passions in the king‟s
b. Ozymandias. heart.
c. Shakespeare. c. He was a qualified sculptor.
d. D.H. Lawrence d. He was a learned poet.

13. SOME MULTIPLE QUESTIONS
BASED ON OZYMANDIAS
(PASSAGE 3)
Which yet survive, stamped  The „hand that mocked.......‟.
on these lifeless things, Whose „hand‟ ?
The hand that mocked them, a. Ozymandias‟s.
and the heart that fed; b. King's.
 Choose the correct option c. Sculptor‟s.
to answer each d. Narrator‟s.
questions:-
 What did the „hand‟ do ?
 What is „which‟ here in the
a. It sculptor the expressions
first line ? of the king.
a. Sneer of cold b. It made fun of Ozymandias
command. by sculpting him as such.
b. Wrinkled lip. c. It laughed at the king‟s
c. Passions of the king. passions.
d. Feelings of d. It ridiculed the king.
Ozymandias.

14. SOME MULTIPLE
QUESTIONS BASED ON
OZYMANDIAS (PASSAGE 4)
And on the pedestal these words  The king asks the reader to
appear: „despair‟ because
“My name is Ozymandias, king of a. Life is as such.
kings:
b. Pride, arrogance and
Look upon my words, ye Mighty, and contempt lead one
despair !” nowhere.
Choose the correct option to answer c. Time is a great healer.
each questions:-
d. Time levels all.
 „My name is Ozymandias, king of
kings‟ shows the  Who has/have been referred
a. Despair of the king.
to as „Mighty‟ ?
b. Despair of the king and a. The king of kings.
repentance of his pride. b. God.
c. Uselessness of sneer, frown c. Ozymandias.
and hatred. d. The powerful men of the
d. Futility of life. world.

15. SOME MULTIPLE
QUESTIONS BASED ON
OZYMANDIAS (PASSAGE 5)
Nothing beside remains. Round  The desert sands are
the decay a. Boundless and bare.
Of that colossal wreck, boundless b. Lone and level.
and bare c. Both (a) and (b).
The love and level sands stretch d. Neither (a) nor (b).
far away.  These lines convey the
 Choose the correct option to idea that
complete each sentence:- a. Truth is beauty.
 Nothing remains beside b. Time and tide wait for
a. The desert. none.
b. The sculptor. c. Distance lends charm
to the view.
c. The poet.
d. With time, everything
d. The king‟s statue.
mixes with dust.

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17. The statue and surrounding desert constitute
a metaphor for invented power in the face of
natural power. By Shelley‟s time, nothing
remains but a shattered bust, eroded
“visage,” and “trunkless legs” surrounded with
“nothing” but “level sands” that “stretch far
away.” Shelley thus points out human
mortality and the fate of artificial things.
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