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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, 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.

Biography Born August 4th 1792, in Horsham, United Kingdom He had one brother and four sisters He left his house at the age of 10 to study at the Syon House Academy He attended Eton College for six years then went on to Oxford University Shelley got expelled from Oxford in just less than a years enrollment He was one of the major English romantic poets He moved to the Lake District of England to study and write He fell in love with Mary Wollstonecraft in 1814 and then got married and had 3 kids February 1815 Mary had giving birth prematurely to a child who died 2 weeks later He Later died on July 8th , 1822 at the age of 29

Structure This Sonnet is neither exactly a Shakespearean nor Petrachan , it resembles both Petrarchan and Shakespearean mainly Italian. It is set up in an octave and sestet It is an Iambic Pentameter which marks one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. It speaks in first person narrative. Has examples of a caesuras and an ellipsis. The theme of the poem is things do not last forever.

Diction (Lines 1-8) I met a traveler from an antique land Vast: of very great extent or quantity Trunkless: without a torso Visage: the surface of an object presented to view. (something noticeable) Sneer: mocking smile Stamped: to leave a mark 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, 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;

Diction (Lines 9-14) And on the pedestal these words appear: Pedestal: the base or support on which a statue, obelisk, or column is mounted. Despair: to lose or be with out hope Decay: the state or process of rotting or decomposition Colossal: extremely; large Boundless: unlimited; extremely, large; immense Bare: basic and simple 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.

Lines 1-8 I met a traveler from an antique land In these five sentences he is telling a story basically when he meets someone who tells him about the statue They describe the statue to him as the poem says in line 4 “ Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown” is saying the all that Ozymandias said is a lie he did not end up to be as great as he said he was going to be. When they quote “shattered visage lies” they are saying the noticeable lies that didn’t come true. These lines are just describing the features and state that the statue now is, collapsed and destroyed. 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, 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;

Lines 9-14 And on the pedestal these words appear: In this stanza the author is talking about what Ozymandias’ pedestal has stated and the things he has promised. When he says “Look on my works” he means to look at the empire he has built. “Nothing besides remains. Round the decay” it goes back to describing the state of the statue. “Of that colossal wreck” the statue is such a big mess and destroyed “boundless and bare” this is saying the statue is extremely large and simple The lone and level sands stretch far away, the statue must be in the middle of the desert abandoned . 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.