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Ozymandias

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveler from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunk less legs of stone
Stand in the desert.

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Ozymandias poem meaning

. 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.”

Meanings of Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The poem “Ozymandias” by P. B. Shelley presents a first-person speaker who speaks about a statue and its facial countenances.

He concludes the main idea of the poem is the transient nature of power, the end of tyranny, and the ravages of times.

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