Ozymandias

• “I met a traveller from an antique land”
• “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert”
• “shattered visage”
• “wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command tell that it’s sculptor well those passions read”
• “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works ,ye mighty, and despair!”
• “Nothing beside remains”
• “The decay of that colossal wreck”
• The poem Ozymandias, written by Percy.B.Shelley, is a second hand account of a traveller seeing the remains of a colossal statue of Eygptian tyrant Ramesses II and how his immense power is ultimately no match for nature and time.
• The poem presents the Themes of : NATURE, PASSAGE OF TIME & NEGATIVE EMOTIONS
• Percy. B. Shelley was a romantic poet during the 1800s meaning he believed nature was a greater thing than humans and human inventions (the Industrial Revolution)