Question

Answer the following in $100-200$ words:
Time humbles even the greatest of the great. One should cultivate the quality of humility. Describe how time has reduced the mighty Ozymandias to nothing.

Answer 1

The poet 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. He told him that he saw two huge stone legs stand in the dessert. Near them lay a damaged stone head and a pedestal, with the words inscribed "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Ozymandias was the Greek name for Ramses II, and he had funded for a lot of structures to be built in his name. His vanity and pride in himself had now reduced to bits. Time had passed by and the self-proclaimed might Ozymandias was reduced to nothing. The sculptor had mocked the pharoah by sculpting a look of frown and sneer on his face. Likewise, the poet too intended to mock the now forgotten ruler, who was once 'mighty and powerful'.