Summary of Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Summary of Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poem Ozymandias by P.B. Shelley deals with the theme of man’s mortality, transience; and highlights the omnipotence of time and death.
The poet says he met a traveler from an ancient land who told him about a huge statue of Ozymandias. The statue is broken now into two parts.
The trunk less legs, and below them on the sand the upper bust. On the face, the angry and worried expressions, carved deftly by the sculptor.
The facial expression on the face tell the workmanship and showmanship of the sculptor. How skillfully he chiseled these expressions on the lifeless stone.
The base on which the statue stood, had the following inscription on it, “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Ozymandias the king who was so mighty and powerful when he was alive, his statue is in ruins. There is nothing but sand all around for miles around his wrecked statue.
The speaker describes a meeting with someone who has traveled to a place where ancient civilizations once existed. We know from the title that he’s talking about Egypt. The traveler told the speaker a story about an old, fragmented statue in the middle of the desert. The statue is broken apart, but you can still make out the face of a person. The face looks stern and powerful, like a ruler. The sculptor did a good job at expressing the ruler’s personality. The ruler was a wicked guy, but he took care of his people.
On the pedestal near the face, the traveler reads an inscription in which the ruler Ozymandias tells anyone who might happen to pass by, basically, “Look around and see how awesome I am!” But there is no other evidence of his awesomeness in the vicinity of his giant, broken statue. There is just a lot of sand, as far as the eye can see. The traveler ends his story.
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