Ozymandias of Egypt
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● Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- One of ‘The Romantics’
- Eton College & Oxford
- An ardent atheist
- Pacifist
● Romanticism: characteristics:
- Dislike of urban life & embrace of the natural world
- Love supernatural
- Use of ordinary, everyday language
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 shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command 5
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock’d them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: 10
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
, ● Visual and Audio: https://youtu.be/sPlSH6n37ts
● Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- One of ‘The Romantics’
- Eton College & Oxford
- An ardent atheist
- Pacifist
● Romanticism: characteristics:
- Dislike of urban life & embrace of the natural world
- Love supernatural
- Use of ordinary, everyday language
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 shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command 5
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock’d them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: 10
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
