thi ppt will help for the poem Ozymindias

1. SWAMI VIVEKANAND GOVT. MODEL SCHOOL
ANUPGARH (SRIGANGANAGAR )

2. Name: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Famous as:-Romantic and Lyric Poet.
Born on:-04August 1792.
Born in:-Horsham, England.
Died on:-08 July 1822.
Nationality:-United Kingdom.
Works & Achievements:-The Revolt of Islam,The Masque
of Anarchy and Men of England.

3. ABOUT THE POEM
 written on December 1817
 Published in 1818 in the January 11 issue
of The Examiner in London
 Frequently anthologised and probably Shelley's most
famous short poem
 Written in competition with his friend Horace Smith, who
wrote another sonnet
 Late in 1817 Percy Shelley and his friend Horace Smith
decided to have a sonnet competition – that's right folks:
a sonnet competition! For the subject of their sonnets,
Shelley and Smith chose a partially-destroyed statue
of Ramses II ("Ozymandias") that was making its way to
London from Egypt, finally arriving there sometime early
in the year 1818

4. setting in Ozymandias
(Ramses II hollywood movie‘THE GREAT JOURNEY)
 Ozymandias was another name for Ramesses the
Great, Pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty of ancient
Egypt.
 The Egyptian desert is used because of both its
monuments and the fact that it is an antique land = a
mysterious setting
 A desert is lifeless, showing that nothing really lasts

5. ssssss
 The setting of Ozymandias is a desolate
wasteland
 Deserts represent the sands of time and the
expanse of time before and after Ozymandias
 Trunkless legs in desert and half sunk

6. POEM
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 shatter’d visage lie, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock’d 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.

7. Word Meaning
 sunk: - to descend below the surface of something
 shattered:- broken into pieces
 visage:- face
 frown:- expression of anger or displeasure
 wrinkled:- marks of lines or folds
 sneer:- facial expression of scorn
 cold:- without feelings for others
 command:- domination or control
 sculptor:- an artist who makes sculptures
 passions:- refers to the expressions on the king’s face
 read:- interpreted
 survive:- continue to exist after his death
 stamped: - sculpted, printed or engraved
 mocked:- to copy something
 colossal: - extremely large or great
 wreck:- ruins

8. I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said... (Line 1-2)
 EXPLAIN:-The poem begins immediately with an encounter
between the speaker and a traveler that comes from an
"antique land."
 We're not sure about this traveler. He could be a native of
this "antique" land, or just a tourist returning from his latest
trip.
 …Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies… (Line 2-4)
Explation:-Here the traveler begins his speech. He tells the
speaker about a pair of stone legs that are somehow still
standing in the middle of the desert.
 "Visage" means face; a face implies a head, so we are being
told that the head belonging to this sculpture is partially
buried in the sand, near the legs. It is also, like the whole
statue, "shatter'd."

9. whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read ( Line 4-6
 Explanation :-We still don't know whom this statue represents, but we
do know that he was upset about something because he's frowning and
sneering. Maybe he thinks that the sneering makes him look powerful.
It conveys the "cold command" of an absolute ruler. He can do what he
wants without thinking of other people. Heck, he probably commanded
the sculptor to make the statue.
 "Read" here means "understood" or "copied" well.The sculptor was
pretty good because he was able to understand and reproduce exactly
– to "read" – the facial features and "passions" of our angry man.
 Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed (Line 7-8 )
 Explanation:-Weirdly, the "passions" still survive because they are
"stamp'd on these lifeless things."The "lifeless things" are the
fragments of the statue in the desert.
 "Mock'd" has two meanings in this passage. It means both "made fun
of" and "copied," or "imitated." "Hand" is a stand-in for the sculptor. So
the sculptor both belittled and copied this man's passions.

10. And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!“ (Line 9-11 )
 It is "Ozymandias," the figure named in the title. "Ozymandias" was one of
several Greek names for Ramses II of Egypt.
 The inscription suggests that Ozymandias is arrogant, he calls himself the
"king of kings.“
 Ozymandias also brags about his "works." Maybe he's referring to the
famous temples he constructed at Abu Simbel orThebes.
Nothing beside remains: round the decay (Line 11- 14)
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Explanation:-
We are reminded again that "nothing" remains besides the head, legs, and
pedestal; as if we didn't know the statue has been destroyed, the traveler
tells us again that it is a "colossal wreck.The statue is the only thing in this
barren, flat desert.

11. Structure OF THE POEM
 “Ozymandias” is a sonnet composed by the
Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and named
for its subject, with the Greek name of the
Egyptian king Ramses II, who died in 1234 b.c.e.
 The poem follows the traditional structure of the
fourteen-line Italian sonnet, featuring an
opening octave, or set of eight lines,followed by
a sestet, or set of six line.
 Rhyme Scheme is ABABACDCEDEFEF
 There are three speakers in the poem: the
person who meets the traveler, the traveler,
and Ozymandias.

12. SUMMARY OF THE POEM
 The title ‘Ozymandias’ is the throne name of Egyptian king
Ramesses.The poem talks about his foolish desire to
immortalize himself by erecting a statue.
 The poet meets a person who has been to an ancient place
in the deserts, Egypt. He tells the poet about the ruined
statue of the great powerful king, Ozymandias. It had been
destroyed with the passage of time.
 There were only the two legs which stood on a platform
and the upper part of the body was nowhere to be seen.
The face of the statue lay buried in the sand. He praises the
talent of the artist as the minutest expressions and wrinkles
had been perfectly copied by him.
 The engraving on the platform reflects the pride and
arrogance of Ozymandias. As the statue is now destroyed,
the engraving is a mockery at the pride and ego of the king.
 Today, after the passage of so many centuries, finally there
is no trace of the king’s accomplishment in the vast stretch
of the desert.