In Ozymandias, what can the reader infer from the description of the scene below?

Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies

a)

In ancient times, a giant forest grew on the site.

b)

There is quicksand in the area which has swallowed the creation Ozymandias was so proud of.

c)

Ozymandias had a massive statue of himself constructed of which only fragments remain.

d)

The waste of resources practiced under Ozymandias' rule turned a fruitful area into barren desert.

In Ozymandias, from the given line in the excerpt the reader can infer that

C) Ozymandias had a massive statue of himself constructed of which only fragments remain.

Explanation:

This is one of the interpretations from the given lines. There are only remains which are surviving and the scenario has stamped on the "lifeless things". His words which appeared in the scene has also been washed away and only the remains are left. It mainly focusses on how life will change at a moment and no one can rely on it because nothing is permanent.

What the reader can infer from the description of the scene is that Ozymandias had a massive statue of himself constructed of which only fragments remain.

Explanation:

Ozymandias is a political poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that makes constant metaphors of the results and decadence of periods of power that were not well performed, all of this inspired for the end of the time of Napoleon, the destructed statue in the poem represents the destruction of governments and the structure that governors create around them.