write short note on ozymandias.
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The speaker recalls having met a traveler “from an antique land,” who told him a story about the ruins of a statue in the desert of his native country. Two vast legs of stone stand without a body, and near them a massive, crumbling stone head lies “half sunk” in the sand.
BrE. a well-known poem (1818) by Shelley. It describes a broken statue of a legendary king of ancient times, lying forgotten in the desert, with these words carved on its base: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
The meaning or themes of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem “Ozymandias” are fairly straightforward and are also highly traditional. Basically, the poem reminds powerful people that their power is only temporary. However much powerful people may wish to think that their power is immortal, they are only deceiving themselves.
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.