What Does Two Vast and Trunkless Legs Mean

He tells the speaker about a pair of stone legs that are somehow still standing in the middle of the desert. Those legs are huge (“vast”) and “trunkless.” “Trunkless” means “without a torso,” so it’s a pair of legs with no body.

What is Shelley's most famous poem?

‘Ozymandias’. Published in The Examiner on 11 January 1818, ‘Ozymandias’ is perhaps Percy Bysshe Shelley’s most celebrated and best-known poem, concluding with the haunting and resounding lines: ‘“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

Who wrote the poem Ozymandias?

‘Ozymandias’ was written by English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). Although a member of the upper classes Shelley was a radical young man, eloping twice with young women; he died at the age of just 29.