Question

I MET a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert ... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage [face] lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which still survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Select one piece of evidence that supports the situational irony of the poem.

Antique land
Who said
Wrinkled lip
Half sunk

Answer 1

Use Process of elimination and check what your answer would be @axolotl

Answer 2

Think about the irony of the situation - the statue has a message from/about king ozymandias, telling people to look upon his grand work and be humbled, but the actual statue has been worn to bits in the middle of an abandoned desert.

Which one of those choices best supports this idea?