Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The poem was created as part of a friendly competition in which Shelley and fellow poet Horace Smith each created a poem on the subject of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II under the title of Ozymandias, the Greek name for the pharaoh. Shelley's poem explores the ravages of time and the oblivion to which the legacies of even the greatest are subject.
Ozymandias" (/ ˌ ɒ z ɪ ˈ m æ n d i ə s / OZ-im-AN-dee-əs) [1] is the title of a sonnet published in 1818 by Horace Smith (1779–1849). Smith wrote the poem in friendly competition with his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley .
Shelley's "Ozymandias" was published on 11 January 1818 under the pen name Glirastes, and Smith's poem of the same title was published on 1 February 1818 with the same title under the initials H.S. (and was later renamed in his collection Amarynthus as On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with ...
Ozymandias, a dæmon in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman; Ozymandias "Oz" Mayfair-Richards, a character from American Horror Story: Cult; Ozymandias, a character in James Patterson's 2003 novel The Lake House; Ozymandias, an owl in the 1970s children's fantasy series Ace of Wands; Ozymandias, the main starship in Dino Crisis 3
"Ozymandias" is the fourteenth episode of the fifth season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the 60th episode of the series overall. Written by Moira Walley-Beckett and directed by Rian Johnson , it aired on AMC in the United States and Canada on September 15, 2013.
Freya Stark alludes to the poem in the title of "A Peak in Darien" (London, 1976). Vladimir Nabokov refers to the poem in his novel Pale Fire when the fictional poet John Shade mentions a newspaper headline that attributes a recent Boston Red Sox victory to "Chapman's Homer" (i.e. to a home run by a player named Chapman).
The poem passionately attacks, as the poet sees it, England's decadent, oppressive ruling class. King George III is described as "old, mad, blind, despised, and dying". [ 2 ] The "leech-like" nobility ("princes") metaphorically suck the blood from the people, who are, in the sonnet, oppressed, hungry, and hopeless, their fields untilled.
The theme of the poem is an exploration of the nature of being and reality. [1] For Shelley, life itself, the "painted veil" which obscures and disguises the immortal spirit, is a more universal conqueror than love, death, fame, chastity, divinity, or time, and, in a dream vision, he sees this triumphal chariot pass, "on the storm of its own ...