Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow.
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 shattered visage ****, whose frown.
(i) Who is the 7′ in the passage? The poet or the speaker.
(ii) Who did the speaker meet?
(iii) Where had the traveller come from?
(iv) Whom does the word ‘who’ in the second line refer to?
(v) What did he see standing in the desert?
(vi) What was lying half sunk in the sand?
(vii) What was the expression on the shattered visage?
(viii) ‘Trunkless legs of stone’ here means
(a) two pillars of stone
(b) a man who has no trunk
(c) a statue of a man with only the legs.
