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Ozymandias king of ancient Egypt, evoked by Shelley as an example of the perishability of power. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 749] See : Authority |
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There is nary a word about Vietnam; nor is there any mention of Turkmenistan--home of that real-life Ozymandias, Turkmenbashi--or of Uzbeldstan, which expelled us from our base there because we protested its anti-democratic tendencies. Once students practice interpreting the iconotextual complexity of both familiar and alien environments, their encounters with Jonson's Penshurst or Homer's Shield of Achilles or Shelley's ruined monument of Ozymandias do not seem as daunting or formidable. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair |
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