Ozymandias Flashcards
1
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poet
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percy bysshe shelley
2
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date
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1817
3
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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
