Q & A on Poem 'OZYMANDIAS' by P.B.Shelley / PGTRB/UGCNET/TNSET/UGTRB/ENGLISH LITERATURE

Q & A on Poem 'OZYMANDIAS' by P.B.Shelley

1) The poem 'Ozymandias' was written in the year of ________.

Ans: December 1817.

2) The poem 'Ozymandias' was published in the year of ________.

Ans: 11 th January 1818.

3) Name the publishing paper issued the poem 'Ozymandias'. 

Ans: The Examiner. 

4) The Examiner is a ____________ paper of London. 

Ans: A Sunday paper, on politics, domestic economy, and theatricals".

5) Which was the P. b. Shelley's work published under his pen name? 

Ans: Ozymandias. 

6) Mention the pen name of Shelley was published in the Examiner. 

Ans: Glirastes.

7) Ozymandias was written in the form of ____________.

Ans: Sonnet. 

8) Why did Shelley wrote the poem 'Ozymandias'? 

Ans: Shelley's friend told about the statue of Ozymandias and then they decided to write a poem about it as a friendly competition. 

9) Who is Shelley's friend? 

Ans: His name is Horace Smith and he is a banker. 

10) Where did Horace Smith learned about the statue of Ozymandias? 

Ans: Shelley's friend knows the details of the statue in the book of Diodorus siculus. 

11) Who is Diodorus Siculus? 

Ans: He is a historian. 

12) The statue of Ozymandias originally known as _____________.

Ans: Rameses II. 

13) "I met a traveller from an antique land,"

From the above lines the word 'I' refers to ___________.

Ans: Unknown speaker of this poem. 

14) Where does the traveller came from? 

Ans: An antique land. 

15) Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone"

From the above lines the word 'Who' refers to____________.

Ans: Historian. 

16) Where did the statue of Ozymandias is placed? 

Ans: Desert. 

17) How does the legs of the statue was described by the speaker? 

Ans:  The statue has two vast and trunkless legs. 

18) How does speaker described face of the statue? 

Ans: His  face was half shattered and looks angry;

 His lips were wrinkled and looks like always passed cold commands. 

19) What does Visage means? 

Ans: The face of the statue of Ozymandias. 

20) Whose passion was well expressed in the statue? 

Ans: A sculptor of the statue of Ozymandias. 

21) "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;"

From the above lines,

 Whose hands mocked the statue of Ozymandias through capturing it's exact expression in the statue? 

Ans: A Sculptor. 

22) What was written in the pedestal of the statue? 

Ans: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!".

23) What does Ozymandias meant through the words 'Kings of kings'? 

Ans: He is the supreme ruler of all the kings. 

24) How does the poem ends? 

Ans: Ozymandias said look around and saw his works that shows the power and bravery of him. But there is nothing left in the desert except sand so that the speaker says even though people are more powerful and brave, one day everything will fade away. Nobody can compete with time. 

25) Write down the rhyme scheme of this poem Ozymandias. 

Ans: ABABACDCEDEFEF. 

POEM LINES:

I met a traveller 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, whose frown,

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;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

                                              _ P. B. SHELLEY.