Ozymandias Flashcards
1
Q
Attempts to make power last don’t always work
A
«Shattered visage…from / and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command»; « look on my works, ye mighty and despair!»
2
Q
Instead things that don’t seem powerful have power
A
«the lone and level sands stretch far away.»
3
Q
Only time will tell
A
The frame device; we have the story, and poem more famous than the pharaoh; what survives is an anecdote and signs of failed hubris
