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In preparation for reading Connie Willis's latest novella, I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land, I went back and read Percy Bysshe Shelly's famous Romantic-era sonnet Ozymandias, which is the source for her title and informs her story. Here's the poem in its entirety: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, T...
So I was going through the books I shelved in the last month for a Read-a-thon and I found this 2 paged book and I searched it on google. I was so surprised that I didn't remember this name. I read this today and I read this when I was in 11th. I always loved it and I remember writing so much on it. I wish I could find it and post it!This is really good and you can just find it on Google or here or maybe listen to it here.This is really deep and it reminds us that how temporary this life is and
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far away. Beautiful. Yet in a way, very telling of the insignificance of our lives. Power, fame and money all only exist from the time we are born until the time we die, then slowly but surely time and nature are sure to forget about us. Even our own species forgets, thus making us buried in the sands of
The Legacy of Rameses10 January 2012 This is a rather short poem, a sonnet to be precise, being a poem of sixteen lines with a specific metre. Now, while I like poetry, I would hardly call myself a poet in that my skill in writing metre is not the best, and in many cases I fall into a system of rhyme, which I find to be pretty corny (at least to my ears). This does not mean that I have not attempted poetry in my life, and many of the poems that I have written tend to be rather short (none of the...
A great poem, that talks about the power and mighty of the great pharaoh Ramses II (Ozymandias) that crumbled."My name is Ozymandias,King of kingsLook on my works,Ye mighty and despair" this might be the most memorable quote in the poem, we can understand how the the author (and may be even the pharaoh) though of him as the king of kings.And to be honest, a poem as powerful and beautiful like this one wouldn't deserve a rank of five star it would deserve like an eight star rank
My favourite Percy Bysshe Shelley poem.A powerful, timeless reminder of the value of humility.
Here read by Bryan Cranstona great putter in place and it also creates a sort of calm, being at peace.
ONE OF MY FAVORITE PIECES OF POETRY. BEAUTIFUL, JUST BEAUTIFUL.
Gotta keep ygs updated!!!So i read a poem 🤔🤔Did i understand it though? no
I have always loved this poem - especially since I have spent so much time in Egpyt, at Luxor. I will - and have - read this poem many,many times throughout my entire lifetime. It resonates within my soul, as I realize not just that all is transitory. "Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair."
Nothing lasts forever. Glory, reputation, conquests or occupations, everything will come to an end eventually. This ambiguous ode carries between its folds heaps of philosophical matters. Scholars really tired themselves giving different interpretations for this poem and many others. I believe that the beauty of a poem lies in the multiplicity of its interpretations by each person. Everyone has his own vision and saying about what he reads, sees or hears and there is no right or wrong when it co...
,,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.”
Fame, power, money...all are temporary. Everything is subjected to time and time swallows them up. Man is insignificant before the power of time. The poet uses a shattered statue to highlight the ephemeral nature of fame, vanity and power. The one great king's proud words "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings, Look upon my work, ye mighty and despair" has been ironically disproved. Ozymandias works and might have crumbled to pieces. His civilization has disappeared and all has been razed or brou...
A very short but striking poem by the guy who was having sex with the girl who wrote Frankenstein. Fucking there's your contextual analysis, Mr Oxford don, you ...
4 Stars! My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal Wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far away. Shelley’s poem takes its title from the Egyptian king Ramesses II, known to the Greeks by the name Ozymandias. In 1817, news broke that archeologists had discovered fragments of a funereal statue of Ramesses II and intended to send the pieces to the British museum. This discovery inspi...
