1.Who is the poet of the poem, ‘Ozymandias of Egypt’?
Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley is the poet of the poem,
‘Ozymandias of Egypt’.
2. Who did the narrator meet?
Answer: The narrator met a traveler.
3. Where did the traveler come from?
Answer: The traveler came from an antique land or place,
Egypt.
4.Where is the antique land referred here in the poem?
Answer: Egypt is the antique land referred here in the poem.
5. What is a sonnet?
Answer: A sonnet (pronounced son-it) is a fourteen line poem
with a fixed rhyme scheme. Often, sonnets use iambic pentameter: five sets of
unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables for a ten-syllable line.
Sonnets were invented by the Italian poet Giacomo da Lentini during the 1200s.
6.Give the meaning of the following words:
antique, visage, pedestal, colossal wreck, stamped
Answer: Word- Meaning
antique- something very old; (here) an ancient civilization
visage- face,
pedestal- the base or support on which a statue, obelisk or
column is mounted
colossal wreck- a heap of the fragmented pieces of the
statue
stamped- the frown and sneer have been successfully
imprinted on the face
Short Answer Questions-1: 2 marks
1.Who recounts the tale of Ozymandias and his broken statue
lying in the desert to the narrator of the poem?
Answer: The traveler recounts the tale of Ozymandias and his
broken statue lying in the desert to the narrator of the poem. The poet brings
forth to the reader the idea of human mortality and the permanence of art
through the traveler.
2.Who was Ozymandias?
Answer: Ozymandias was a successful
mighty king. He often regarded himself as the king of kings. He had a vast kingdom
in Egypt. So, he was boasting of the wealth and the property.
3.Whoose hand mocked them?
Answer: The sculpture’s hand ‘mocked
them. Through ‘the hand that mocked them’, the poet refers to the sculptor’s
hand that has mocked or mimicked the feelings in the king Ozymandias’ heart and
carved them on to stone so perfectly.
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