Ozymandias

Question 1

Ozymadias
Summary

Answer 1

The poem is about the discovery of a semi-destroyed and decaying statue of Ramesses II, also known as Ozymandias, and shows how power deteriorates and will not last forever.

Question 2

Ozymandias
Poems that link to it

Answer 2

London” by William Blake, “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, and “The Prelude” by William Wordsworth.

Question 3

Ozymandias
Key quotations

Answer 3

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; /Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
“Nothing beside remains.”
“Round the decay / Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
“The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;”

Question 4

Ozymandias
Important contextual information

Answer 4

At that time, a large part of a statue depicting the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II was unearthed. Egyptians were highly superstitious and believed that their legacy would continue to exist in the underworld.