![]() The skillful hand and well-feeling heart of the artist made fun of those passions of the king. the fragments of the statue that were noticed by the traveller. He might have read well all those passions of the king, and therefore, he survived them stamping on those lifeless things, i.e. The sculptor might have engraved these qualities in the statue to justify his skills or her might have suffered at the hand of the cruel king. Although "shattered" the face retained a very lifelike expression, and it was possible to recognize the 'frown', the 'wrinkled lip', and 'sneer of cold command', which suggest to us that the original statue represented a man who was bad-tempered, heartless, cruel. One detail that the traveler, particularly observed, however, were the fragments of the face. Now only the legs are left standing, and most of the other parts of the body have disappeared, or are unrecognizable. ‘My name is Ozymandieas…” lone and level sands…” form a picture of a desert landscape, and in it the remains of a great statue, which once must have depicted in large proportions a great king or ruler. The obvious narrated details of the poem - "… traveler… legs of stone… desert… shattered visage… sneer… pedestal…. The whole powerful effect of the poem depends on the clear, bold presentation of the situation. This man introduces us to Ozymandias, of making 'bridge' between the 'antique' past (historical character of Ozyniandias) and the present (presentation of the King in the form of a statue by the sculptor). The traveller comments on the character of Ozymandias, which is the basic interest of the poem. Besides, the poet takes us to the dramatic situation of the poem. It is also possible that the speaker prepares us to believe the content of the poem. ![]() The word 'antique' is itself 'ancient.' The person may have come from Athens, Sparta, Rome or other parts of the world which are still well known for antique culture. My play, Vanna Helsing, will be performed.The first person speaker reports that the traveller was from an 'antique' land.The Power of Female Beauty: Cinderella (2015).The Troll Who Wanted To Build A Wall: A Fable.Writing Dialogue with Subtext: La La Land (2016).published my column on Dexter: New Blood.My screenplay, Pajama Boy, is an Official Selection….My play, Vanna Helsing, will be performed….Donate Donate monthly Donate yearly Recent Posts The lone / and lev/el sands / stretch far / a way. Of that / co los/sal wreck, / boundless / and bare, Nothing / be side / re mains. / Round the / de cay Look on / my works, / ye Migh/ty, and / des pair! My name/ is Oz/y man / dias, King / of Kings The hand / that mocked / them, and / the heart / that fed Īnd on / the ped/es tal, / these words / ap pear: Which yet / sur vive, / stamped on / these life/less things, Tell that / its sculp/tor well / those pas/sions read, Half sunk / a shat/tered vis/age lies, / whose frown,Īnd wrink/led lip, / and sneer / of cold / com mand Who said, / Two vast / and trunk/less legs / of stone I met / a trav/ler from / an an/tique land I am open to any feedback if you have a different interpretation. The spondee in line 10 is clear if you listen to Bryan Cranston’s reading on YouTube. The meter is iambic pentameter with 8 trochees and one spondee. Thank you to Hammered Critic and Poemshape for their scansion of this poem.
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