ozymandias

• "i met a traveller from an antique land"
• "near them on the sand, / half sunk, a shattered visage"
• "whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command"
• "which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things"
• "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
• "nothing beside remains."
• "colossal wreck, boundless and bare, / The lone and level sands stretch far away."
• Themes:

  • even the mightiest will fall
  • human power is transitory
  • sonnet - mocking Ramses for being enamoured of and infatuated with himself
  • hubris - pride comes before a fall