ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In the poem ‘Ozymandias’ who calls Ozymandias ‘King of Kings’?
A
The Traveler
B
The speaker
C
Other Kings
D
Ozymandias himself
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In order to emphasise on him to be the most powerful of all kings, King Ozymandias calls himself ‘King of Kings’. The king supposedly was very powerful, aggressive, arrogant and boastful.

Detailed explanation-2: -Value Points :thinks he is the greatest of all Kings arrogant vain conceited egocentricDetailed Answer :Ozymandias refers to himself as the king of kings because he thought he was the mightiest of all the kings and no one was more powerful than him. He was boastful arrogant vain conceit egocentric.

Detailed explanation-3: -The inscription suggests that Ozymandias is arrogant, or at least that he has grand ideas about his own power: he calls himself the “king of kings."

Detailed explanation-4: -Ozymandias was apparently inspired by the discovery in Luxor of a statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II (known in Greek as Ozymandias).

Detailed explanation-5: -Ozymandias was a boastful king who believed that he was the most powerful and mightiest. he was also very arrogant, conceited, rude who didn’t realise that human life along with power, prestige, riches, etc are not eternal or are immortal.

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