Ozymandius - CBSE English Class 10 by Percy Bysshe Shelley.An Explanation by Commander S. Mohan\r
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was the son of a rich nobleman of England, Educated in Eton, (an exclusive school for the elite) and then sent to Oxford. \r
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Poem:\r
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OZYMANDIAS\r
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I met a traveler from an antique land 1\r
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone\r
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,\r
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown\r
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And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command 5\r
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read\r
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Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,\r
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.\r
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And on the pedestal these words appear:\r
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: 10\r
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!\r
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Nothing beside remains. Round the decay\r
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,\r
The lone and level sands stretch far away. 14\r
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