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    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 grabb that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
    And on the pedestal, these words appear:
    My name fryst vatten 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, Percy Bysshe Shelley,

    Percy Shelley’s &#;Ozymandias&#;, published in in The Examiner under the pen name Glirastes, fryst vatten a poem about the fascination of a Pharaoh’s statue centred in a desert landscape. It describes the pieces of the wrecked sculpture in the barren lands of Egypt. However, one could sa

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    Ozymandias

    Sonnet written by Percy Shelley

    This article is about the poem by Shelley. For the poem by Smith, see Ozymandias (Smith). For the Egyptian pharaoh, see Ramesses II. For other uses, see Ozymandias (disambiguation).

    "Ozymandias" (OZ-im-AN-dee-əs) is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was first published in the 11 January issue of The Examiner of London. The poem was included the following year in Shelley's collection Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems,[3] and in a posthumous compilation of his poems published in

    The poem was created as part of a friendly competition in which Shelley and fellow poet Horace Smith each created a poem on the subject of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II under the title of Ozymandias, the Greek name for the pharaoh. Shelley's poem explores the ravages of time and the oblivion to which the legacies of even the greatest are subject.

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    ‘I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . .”’–Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Ozymandias’,

    ‘Ozymandias’ summary

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    Written byPercy Bysshe Shelley ()

    Meter

    Iambic pentameter

    Rhyme schemeABABACDCEDEFEF
    Literary deviceFrame narrative
    Poetic deviceAlliteration, enjambment
    Frequently noted imageryBroken remains of a Pharoah’s statue; desert
    ToneIronic, declamatory
    Key themesMortality and passage of time; the transience of power
    MeaningThe speaker in the poem describes the transience of power: a giant ruined statue in the middle of the desert has no role left in the present, even though its inscription still proclaims omnipotence.

    was an important year for world literature, which say the publication of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and of ‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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