Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Comprehension - (Poetry / Literary)

Question:

Read the following poem and answer questions


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 lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet 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.

Who is the speaker of the poem?

Options:

the traveller

Ozymandias

the poet

All of the above

Correct Answer:

the poet

Explanation:

Option 3: the poet

The poem is narrated by the poet who recounts what the traveller from an antique land has told him.

The traveller is not the speaker but a character in the poem.

Ozymandias is also a character whose words are quoted within the poem.