The narrator, relating what he's heard from the traveler, notes that the statue's visage (face) had a frown, a 'wrinkled lip. This is actually a common tendency among ancient structures: if you ever. Art (3) 7th centry Art (1) 7th century B.C. Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1792-1822 I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Ozymandias, also known as Ramses II, is the subject of this statue. In Ozymandias, the statue seems to have been destroyed by the ravages of time. Although the poem is a 14-line sonnet, it breaks from the typical sonnet tradition in both its form and rhyme scheme, a tactic that reveals Shelley’s interest in. Historians and archaeologists of the twentieth ce agreed that Ozymandias is the Greek name for the pharaoh Ramses II (1301-1234 B.C.). ![]() Art (2) 15th century Art (129) 16th century Art (318) 17th century Art (230) 18th century Art (157) 19th century Art (1748) 1st-century BC Art (2) 20th century Art (4295) 21st Century Art (2593) 2nd century Art (1) 2nd Century BC Art (1) 3nd Century Art (1) 4th century BC Art (3) 5th century BC Art (1) 6th century B.C. In Ozymandias, Shelley describes a crumbling statue of Ozymandias as a way to portray the transience of political power and to praise art’s power of preserving the past. The bulk of the broken Ozymandias torso lies within the second court of the Ramesseum, between the second pylon and the hypostyle hall. ![]() 12th century Art (2) 13th Century Art (5) 14th Century Art (17) 14th century B.C. The name, Ozymandias, might be a variant of a real Pharaoh’s name, the statue might indeed exist, but everything else in the poem comes from Shelley’s fertile brain.
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