ozymandias short notes
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In "Ozymandias," Shelley describes the ruins of the once great tomb of Ramses II, also known as Ozymandias. This tomb was intended to memorialize Ramses' greatness, but instead paints a sad picture of death and decay in a barren desert.
The speaker meets a traveler who tells him about Ramses's tomb. The traveler's dialogue begins in line two and continues until the end of the fourteen-line sonnet.
Ozymandias clearly intended this tomb and its sphinx to immortalize him. An inscription on the tomb even reads: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Unfortunately, that's not what the traveler felt when he saw it.
The sight of these ruins leads the traveler to conclude that everyone dies and that one day everything will succumb to the desert and the dust.
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In "Ozymandias," Shelley describes the ruins of the once great tomb of Ramses II, also known as Ozymandias. This tomb was intended to memorialize Ramses' greatness, but instead paints a sad picture of death and decay in a barren desert.
The speaker meets a traveler who tells him about Ramses's tomb. The traveler's dialogue begins in line two and continues until the end of the fourteen-line sonnet.
Ozymandias clearly intended this tomb and its sphinx to immortalize him. An inscription on the tomb even reads: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Unfortunately, that's not what the traveler felt when he saw it.
The sight of these ruins leads the traveler to conclude that everyone dies and that one day everything will succumb to the desert and the dust.