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English, 22.07.2019 02:30 brooklyn4932

Ineed a little with my english. i don't really get it. in “ozymandias,” the phrase “antique land” alludes to egypt. how does the allusion to egypt create meaning in this poem? a. it implies that the land is empty and barren. b. it hints at the buried treasures that lurk just beneath the sands. c. it creates a sense of mystery and antiquity. d. it compares what egypt was to what it has become. poem: ozymandias 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.” sorry if the question is

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