Question

Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow.

And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works,ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside ***. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.

(i) Where do the words appear?

(ii) Who wrote those words?

(iii) Who are those words addressed to?

(iv) What does the word ‘works’ refer to?

(v) Who are ‘ye mighty’?

(vi) Why should others despair?

(vii) What does the word ‘wreck’ refer to?

(viii) What was to be seen around the colossal wreck?

Answer 1

(i) Upon the pedestal.

(ii) Ozymandias.

(iii) The mighty.

(iv) The word ‘works’ refers to the achievements of Ozymandias

(v) ‘Ye mighty’ are other kings who imagine that their power and glory would last for ever and be greater than that of Ozymandias.

(vi) Others should despair because no one can rival him.

(vii) ‘Wreck’ refers to the ruins of the statue of the king.

(viii) Nothing but sand.