The BBC explains why and embeds the trailer in the webpage. The lone and level sands stretch far away. The tv show Breaking Bad featured the poem "Ozymandias" in a trailer for the final season. This website shows the statue of Ramses II (Ozymandias), the discovery of which may have inspired Shelley's poem. Shelley first published "Ozymandias" in The Examiner in 1818, under the name "Glirastes." This is a scan of the first edition printing. The Bodleian Library at Oxford University digitized and transcribed an early draft of "Ozymandias" from 1817 and made it available online. The British Library has a short introduction to "Ozymandias" that includes excerpts of potential sources for the poem, historical information about Ramses II (Ozymandias), as well as details about Shelley's radical politics. The vanity of human and greatness, the boastfulness of Man is indeed nothing (insignificant) to the vastness of Nature and the realm of Time.British Library's "Introduction to Ozymandias" These remaining lines of the poem put forth two ideas which form a powerful constrast to the ideas unfurled in the previous lines. These ideas are 1) The boastful lines inscribed under the statue claims and pronounces the greatness and glory of Ozymandias. However, these words stand as perfect contrast to the actual situation of the statue depicted. The vast stretches of boundless desert which surrounds the ruins of the statue, is contrasted to the smallness of the statue itself in comparison. The following final lines conclude the poem but present these powerful contrasts.Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Thus art provides permanence to something which is ephemeral in real life. It reminds us, the heart from which these feeling arrived might have stopped palpitating and the artist have passed away, but the feelings have been made immortal on stone. The statue indeed is a work of a skilful sculpture that is able to read the ephemeral (short lived) emotions from the face of the great king Ozymandias. However the sculptor who made this statue and the king whose immortal emotions depicted, is dead over by four thousand years. The king whose resemblance the statue depicts is also dead. But the feeling sculpted in the statue leaves behind a living testimonial of the great skill of the artist.‘Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, The poet meets a traveler who came back after visiting an ancient region. In his attempt to describe the poet, he speaks about a ruined statue whose broken legs are standing and the body is half deep in the sand. The statue doesn’t correspond to that of a common man, but is of the great king Ozymandias. The statue of king Ozymandias depicts the expression of arrogance, contempt, cruelty and confidence even today. His face depicts his frown and sneer nature with his upper lips curled as if in scorn.The shattered trunk of the gigantic statue of Rameses still lays among the ruins of Ramesseum at Thebes.Shelley seems to remember the memorial described by Diodorus was that of Rameses. Ozymandias was the Greek name for king Rameses II.Shelley appears to have borrowed the subject of Ozymandias from the Greek history of Diodorus Siculus, who describes a memorial of a king Ozymandias with the following inscription: “ I am Ozymandias, King of kings” Shelley describes how powerful men and their legacies are destined to fade into oblivion.‘ Ozymandias ’ is one of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s best-known and most accessible poems. This sonnet was written in the year 1817 and was published in Hunt’s Examiner in 1818 and was published with Roalind and Helen. Stephen Hebron looks at P B Shelley’s Ozymandias, showing how his use of form and vocabulary produce a poem that transcends its sources. Ozymandias Summary The speaker describes a meeting with someone who has traveled to a place where ancient civilizations once existed.
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