What is the effect of the alliteration in the closing lines of "Ozymandias": "boundless and bare, / the lone and level sands stretch far away"?

a. It produces feelings of pity for the death of the king.

b. It stresses the challenges of life in the desert.

c. It brings the poem back to the sculptor's perspective.

d. It focuses attention on the vast, empty space in which the statue is decaying.

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Aidan Norman

27 February, 01:31

What is the effect of the alliteration in the closing lines of "Ozymandias": "boundless and bare, / the lone and level sands stretch far away"?

a. It produces feelings of pity for the death of the king.

b. It stresses the challenges of life in the desert.

c. It brings the poem back to the sculptor's perspective.

d. It focuses attention on the vast, empty space in which the statue is decaying.

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Weber · Answer 1

I'd say the answer is D) it focuses attention on the vast, empty space in which the statue is decaying. Because the focus of the poem is on the statue, and these lines refer to the enormous space in which there is only sand and the statue which is falling apart.