ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The statue of ‘Ozymandias’ is ____
A
on a mountain
B
beside a river
C
in a desert
D
in a valley
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The statue of Ozymandias was found in a distant desert. The head of the statue was broken and nearby two vast legs of stone stood without a body. The head was half sunk in the sand. The statue had a bitter and cruel expression of command and power.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shelley’s Ozymandias statue is located here-Ramesseum (Mortuary Temple of Ramses II), Luxor Traveller Reviews-Tripadvisor.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1817, Shelley began writing the poem “Ozymandias", after the British Museum acquired the Younger Memnon, a head-and-torso fragment of a statue of Ramesses II, which dated from the 13th century BC.

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