Ozymandias - Context
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- Ozymandias
- Ramses II
- Military conqueror and builder
- achievements of mighty tyrant are obliterated by time
- About a statue of this ruler
- A criticism of people/symbols that become huge and believe themselves to be invincible
- Learnt about it from Diadorus and the actual statue says 'King of Kings'
- Military conqueror and builder
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Romantic Poet
- From a wealthy family
- Radically political and disapproved of British monarchy
- Supporter of the French Revolution
- Publication
- Published in The Examiner a political magazine
- English were obsessed with Egyptian and Greek treasures
- So the poem played to public interests
- Messages of the poem
- Criticism of wielding power in an undemocratic way (tyranny)
- Survival of Creativity
- Even the greatest men and the empires they forge are impermanent
- Their legacies are fated to decay into oblivion
- Ramses II
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