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Ozymandias was a king in Egypt.
on the base of the base of the statue it said "king of kings" which is how he describes himself in the poem. |
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| "I met a traveller from an antique land" |
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The narrator has never seen the statue.
Antique means its old and out of fashion. |
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| "Who said "Two vast and trunk less legs of stone..." |
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| the statue is barely standing, the rest of it is ruined and gone. |
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| "Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown" |
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| the face is unrecognisable so it doesn't have any purpose. |
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| "The hand that mocked them and the hand that fed" |
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| This has a double meaning, it is making fun of him as well has being a an actual model of him. |
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| "Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare" |
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| This is a metaphor for his ego. |
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