Question

I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert ... Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage [face] lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which still survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: "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. Which word supports the meaning of decay? (10 points)

Bare

Round

Wreck

Colossal

Answer 1

In the poem “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelly the word that supports the word decay is the word wreck. The word decay is used to describe something that rots or decomposes and by calling the artwork a wreck, meaning something that is destroyed, author supports the meaning of the word decay.