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    Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" tells the story of a traveler who comes across a statue in the desert. The statue depicts a king named Ozymandias, with an inscription boasting that anyone who looks upon his works will despair at his great power and kingdom. However, all that remains is the statue's shattered legs and face, as the kingdom and ruler have long since decayed into nothingness. The poem warns that no earthly power or glory lasts forever, as even the mightiest of kings will one day be forgotten.

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" tells the story of a traveler who comes across a statue in the desert. The statue depicts a king named Ozymandias, with an inscription boasting that anyone who looks upon his works will despair at his great power and kingdom. However, all that remains is the statue's shattered legs and face, as the kingdom and ruler have long since decayed into nothingness. The poem warns that no earthly power or glory lasts forever, as even the mightiest of kings will one day be forgotten.

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" tells the story of a traveler who comes across a statue in the desert. The statue depicts a king named Ozymandias, with an inscription boasting that anyone who looks upon his works will despair at his great power and kingdom. However, all that remains is the statue's shattered legs and face, as the kingdom and ruler have long since decayed into nothingness. The poem warns that no earthly power or glory lasts forever, as even the mightiest of kings will one day be forgotten.

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" tells the story of a traveler who comes across a statue in the desert. The statue depicts a king named Ozymandias, with an inscription boasting that anyone who looks upon his works will despair at his great power and kingdom. However, all that remains is the statue's shattered legs and face, as the kingdom and ruler have long since decayed into nothingness. The poem warns that no earthly power or glory lasts forever, as even the mightiest of kings will one day be forgotten.

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    Ozymandias

    Percy Bysshe Shelley


    Percy Bysshe
    Shelley
    •
    •
    Born 4 August 1792 (Sussex, England)
    Studied at Eton and Oxford, where he was
    bullied  books and clothes were torn.
    • 1811  expelled from Oxford; Eloped and
    married Harriet Westbrook (16) – two children
    (son Ianthe and Charles); marriage collapsed,
    ran away with Mary Goldwin (16) in 1814
    married her in 1817, after Harriet drowned
    (child – Percy Florence)
    • Involved in the Romantic Era Movement 
    reaction to Industrial Revolution, moving back
    to natural phenomenon
    • Ideologies  athesim, vegetarianism, free love,
    and political radicalism
    • Died (drowned in sailing accident) on 8 July
    1822 (Lerici, Italy)
    Ozymandias
    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 lies, whose frown,

    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

    Which yet 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.


    Ozymandias
    – Information
    • 14 lined poem  sonnet
    – Doesn’t conform to neither Elizabethan not
    Petrarchan style
    • Rhyme scheme: ABABACDEDEFEF
    – Made up of seven sentences in total

    • Ozymandias – Greek name for the Egyptian


    monarch Ramses II (13th Century BCE) who is
    said to have erected huge statue of himself
    Ozymandias
    Poem shows that tyranny doesn’t last; warns that people of power
    will one day be forgotten, too

    Person roaming lands Ancient lands


    I met a traveller from an antique land
    Big/huge Legs that do not have torso of body (trunk) to carry
    Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Is alone/ deserted in the desert

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


    Half-buried broken face
    What his face looks like
    Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
     Looks and believes to be
    superior to all
    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
    Sculptor read and captured
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read expressions well
    Expressions survived, living on pieces of stone
    Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
    Hand mocked, showed power and arrogance
    The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.
    Heart gave meaning and life to people, fed
    and nourished them
    IRONY – pedestal shows power
    and majesty, but nothing now The statue represents Ozymandias
    - Name means:
    remains
    - Ozium = to breathe air
    - Mandias = mandate/rule
    And on the pedestal these words appear:  Ruler of Air/Nothing
    Important person; shows power,
    ‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: influence over people of his day
    Kingdom/ name Lose hope “look at my work, my name you who
    thinks yourself as ‘mighty’ and you will
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ lose all hope’
    Negative connotation  kingdom no longer exists
    Rotted away/deteriorated
    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
    huge Statue deteriorated too Kingdom now sand, vast
    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare emptiness/ without an end

    The lone and level sands stretch far away.”


    King of ‘nothing’ /
    ‘nothingness’  immortal Ozymandias, being ‘the ruler of air’ gives sense
    that ‘nature’ never disappears, no matter how
    often mankind tries to adjust it. It is ‘air’/’nature’
    that represents immortality, not mankind or
    mankind’s possessions (i.e. statue)

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