ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -He tells the speaker about a pair of stone legs that are somehow still standing in the middle of the desert. Those legs are huge ("vast") and “trunkless.” “Trunkless” means “without a torso, ” so it’s a pair of legs with no body.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Transience of Power All that remains of the statue are two “vast” stone legs standing upright and a head half-buried in sand, along with a boastful inscription describing the ruler as the “king of kings” whose mighty achievements invoke awe and despair in all who behold them.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ozymandias was the name given to a hugely powerful thirteenth‑century BC Egyptian king. It appears that the once magnificent tomb of the pharaoh now lies broken in the desert sands. Only two trunkless legs remain, and a ‘shattered visage’ half hidden in the sand.

Detailed explanation-4: -Enjambment. Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence beyond a line break, couplet, or stanza without an expected pause. In “Ozymandias” there are numerous examples of enjambment, including “Who said-"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone/Stand in the desert. . . .

Detailed explanation-5: -Summary and Analysis Ozymandias. A traveler tells the poet that two huge stone legs stand in the desert. Near them on the sand lies a damaged stone head.