![]() ![]() He can do what he wants without thinking of other people. It conveys the "cold command" of an absolute ruler. Maybe he thinks that the sneering makes him look powerful. We still don't know whom this statue represents, but we do know that he was upset about something because he's frowning and sneering.As it turns out, the "visage" (or face) isn't completely "shatter'd" because one can still see a "frown," a "wrinkled lip," and a "sneer.".The traveler now gives a fuller description of the "shatter'd visage" lying in the sand.…whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read What happened to the rest of the statue? War? Natural disaster? Napoleon? The image described is very strange: a pair of legs, with a head nearby.It is also, like the whole statue, "shatter'd." "Visage" means face a face implies a head, so we are being told that the head belonging to this sculpture is partially buried in the sand, near the legs.Those legs are huge ("vast") and "trunkless." "Trunkless" means "without a torso," so it's a pair of legs with no body.He tells the speaker about a pair of stone legs that are somehow still standing in the middle of the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies… …Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Or he could just be coming from a place that has an older history, like Greece, Rome, or ancient Egypt. The traveler could be coming from a place that is ancient, almost as if he were time-traveling. ![]() "Antique" means something really old, like that couch at your grandmother's or the bunny ears on top of your television.We don't know where this encounter is taking place is it on the highway? On a road somewhere? In London? Maybe if we keep reading we'll find out.He could be a native of this "antique" land, or just a tourist returning from his latest trip. The poem begins immediately with an encounter between the speaker and a traveler that comes from an "antique land.".I met a traveller from an antique land Who said. ![]()
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