Summary of poem - Ozymandias.

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THE NARRATOR RELATES WHAT THE TRAVELLER TELLS HIM

the narrator says that he met a traveller from a very old land. he told what he saw there in a desert.

DESCRIBING WHAT THE TRAVELLER SHOW

the traveller told the narrator that he saw a broken statue of a man. there remained now two huge legs of stone of the man. these stood in the desert and had no trunk on them. near the sand there lay a broken human face. the face had an expression of a frown and scorn of brutal command. these were so exact that they told the intelligence if the sculptor. he had studied then vere in telligently and carved then on the stone.

OTHER FEATURES OF THE FACE

the traveller told the narrator that these expression on the human face survived there in the desert. on those lifeless legs, one could see two things. one,the hand of the sculptor which mocked at those expression. second, the heart of the person who had been carved in the stone.

WRITING ON THE PEDESTAL

on the pedestal there were written these words: my name is ozymandias, king of kings.oh you powerful! look upon my deeds and be sad.

WHAT ELSE REMAINS

the traveller told the narrator that beside these legs and human face there remained nothing. all around that hufe broken atatue there spread limitless, lone and level sands. these indicated the power of the time and the fate of the king who once was mighty.

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