Ozymandias Flashcards

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poet

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percy bysshe shelley

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date

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1817

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3 quotes

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  • two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert…
  • half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
  • Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
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context

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  • romantic poet and radical thinker
  • rejected the corruption of the government
  • atheist
  • written as a warning that no matter how powerful they think they are, the powers of time and nature are more powerful
  • he also wrote a poem condemning the British Government after a protest
  • he was expelled from Oxford Uni for writing an essay on the importance of atheism
  • his father disowned him and cut off his finances
  • said to be about Rameses who had a reign so long that all of his subjects when he died had only know him as pharaoh
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