ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The speaker recalls having met a traveler “from an antique land, ” who told him a story about the ruins of a statue in the desert of his native country. Two vast legs of stone stand without a body, and near them a massive, crumbling stone head lies “half sunk” in the sand.

Detailed explanation-2: -this means that the half sunk face shows disapproval <frown=disapprove>on its wrinkled face, whose face is having a cold command which shows that the king Ozymandias is having a proud but a fear of loss too.

Detailed explanation-3: -Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies… Here the traveler begins his speech. 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-4: -Near them on the sand lies a damaged stone head. The face is distinguished by a frown and a sneer which the sculptor carved on the features. On the pedestal are inscribed the words “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Around the huge fragments stretches the empty desert.

Detailed explanation-5: -The head of the statue, once so imposing now lies half sunk and shattered in the sand. This implies that even though Ozymandias was once ‘King of Kings’, he now lies forgotten in the sand.