President Donald Trump did not dispute that he is building monuments to himself amid his architectural blitz in Washington, DC, saying in a recent interview that “nobody will do it once I’m gone.”
The statue’s features “tell” that the sculptor read those “passions” (the cold sneer, etc.) in the monarch’s face, his general mood and way of treating the world. And in doing, those passions survive and appear in this statue.
I don’t really understand “the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed”.
mocked=imitated. So the skill of the sculptors hand that was able to capture the emotions (passions) that came from Ozymandias’ heart where those emotions truely lived. They were part of his core being, not an act or a face he had to put on to be able to rule.
It’s saying the sculptor was exceptionally skilled and was able to capture the very essence of Ozymandias’ being.
The statue’s features “tell” that the sculptor read those “passions” (the cold sneer, etc.) in the monarch’s face, his general mood and way of treating the world. And in doing, those passions survive and appear in this statue.
I don’t really understand “the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed”.
mocked=imitated. So the skill of the sculptors hand that was able to capture the emotions (passions) that came from Ozymandias’ heart where those emotions truely lived. They were part of his core being, not an act or a face he had to put on to be able to rule.
It’s saying the sculptor was exceptionally skilled and was able to capture the very essence of Ozymandias’ being.
Ah, thank you, beautiful. So much of that passage amounts to “for real y’all, you could tell by looking, this dude was a jerk” lol