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OZYMANDIAS
Poem with translation and explanation:
Main idea:
A traveler saw a broken statue
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Its face was lying in the sand half
buried
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The ling tried to immortalize himself in the form of
a statue
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The poet wants to show that nothing is
immortal in this world
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It was the statue of a king
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The face was lying half
buried in the sand
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Lines 1-4:
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
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Explanation: The poet met a traveler
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He told the poet that he had seen
a statue
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Its two huge
legs were without a trunk
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It lay half buried there
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Line 5-8:
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed
Explanation: The face of the statue had a frown on
it
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There was a look of anger

on it
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All the
feelings of a cruel king were clearly depicted there
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Therefore he had carved them so
plainly on the face
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Lines 9-11:
And on the pedestal these words appear
My name is Ozymandias king of kings
Look on my works ye mighty and despair!
Explanation: The words carved on the foot of the
statute showed that Ozymandias was a great
powerful king
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The king claimed to be the king of
kings
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Lines 12-14:
Nothing beside remains round the decay
Of that colossal wreck boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away
Explanation: Now the statue of the king is standing
alone in the desert
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Everything else has gone
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Only a vast barren desert
surrounds the remains of the statue

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