![]() ![]() So the poet here highlights the mortality and inevitable decline of so-called mighty leaders and their false pride in contrary to the immortality of creative works. ![]() So, what remains alive is the sculptor’s work of art. But the head of the statue which is half-sunk in the sand, still expresses the passions of the ruler. The king once enjoyed his commanding power, but time has brought its decay. Advertisementsīut, the poem ironically presents a great message about the transitory (short-lived) existence of the boastful might of the ruler. ![]() It’s no surprise that the poem is named after him. The sonnet is about the ruins of a statue of Ozymandias. In antiquity, Ozymandias was a Greek name for the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, who ruled from 1279 BCE to 1213 BCE. The next year, it got a place in Shelley’s collection Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue with Other Poems (1819). It is a sonnet, first published in The Examiner in 1818. Ozymandias is one of the most anthologized poems written by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. ![]()
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