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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 .
Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems is a poem collection by Percy Bysshe Shelley published in 1819. The collection also contains the poems "Lines written on the Euganean Hills", " Hymn to Intellectual Beauty ", and the sonnet " Ozymandias ".
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"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.
Critics agree that the poetry of Percy Shelley had a strong influence on the drafting of "The Second Coming." The first stanza matches the tone, diction, and syntax of Prometheus Unbound. [9] [10] [11] Both Harold Bloom and Jon Stallworthy speculate that the poem's sphinx draws off the imagery of Shelley's Ozymandias. [8] [9]
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John Mullin in "Shelley’s long-lost poem – a document for our own time (and any other)" argued that the work was relevant and contemporary and that the themes and issues that Shelley addressed were timeless. [9] The poem was seen as an important work in the author's canon that showed the development and evolution of his political views. [10]