ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In the poem Ozymandias, the traveler saw a stellar statue which is now broken in pieces. The statue belonged to a mighty emperor. Explanation: The statue was half-buried in the sand.

Detailed explanation-2: -The speaker of the poem meets a traveller who came from an ancient land. The traveller describes two large stone legs of a statue, which lack a torso to connect them and which stand upright in the desert. Near the legs, half-buried in sand, is the broken face of the statue.

Detailed explanation-3: -Detailed Answer : The traveller saw two vast and trunkless legs which were made of stone stands in the desert. A half sunk shattered visage lay close by in the sand whose frown and wrinkled lip had been captured deftly by the sculptor.

Detailed explanation-4: -the traveller saw a statue of a mighty emperor, which wasbroken and was shattered and half sunk in the sand. though his legs were still at right place but his face was lying in the sand. the expressions on the face of statue of ozymandias was, like he believed no one is above him and he ia even more powerful than god.

Detailed explanation-5: -Two vast legs of stone stand without a body, and near them a massive, crumbling stone head lies “half sunk” in the sand. The traveler told the speaker that the frown and “sneer of cold command” on the statue’s face indicate that the sculptor understood well the emotions (or “passions") of the statue’s subject.