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Question
What quality of King Ozymandias does the poem reflect ?
Solution
The poem reflects upon the king’s grand delusions of his own power and might, which he thought could be immortalised in stone. However, it proved to be only a wishful thinking because all that remained of that statue was a colossal wreck.
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