Ozymandias
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"Ozymandias" ( ) is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner of London.
Key facts
- Poem.name
- Ozymandias
- Poem.image
- Ozymandias The Examiner 1818.jpg
- Poem.caption
- Shelley's "Ozymandias" in The Examiner
- Poem.author
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Poem.first
- 11 January 1818
- Poem.country
- England
- Poem.language
- Modern English
- Poem.form
- Sonnet
- Poem.meter
- Loose iambic pentameter
- Poem.rhyme
- ABABACDCEDEFEF
- Poem.publisher
- The Examiner
- Poem.wikisource
- Ozymandias (Shelley)
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Described at
Ozymandias | The Poetry Foundation
Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those…
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Ramesses II
- Author
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Main subject
- hubris
- Image
- Ozymandias.jpg
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- inception
- 1817-00-00
- first line
- I met a traveller from an antique land
- language of work or name
- English language
- publication date
- 1818-01-11
- place of publication
- London
- number of parts of this work
- 14
- title
- Ozymandias
- copyright status
- public domain
- last line
- The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- used metre
- iambic pentameter
- form of creative work
- sonnet
- described at URL
- www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias
- Commons category
- Ozymandias
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Writing, publication and text
- Publication history
- Text
- Analysis
- Reception and impact
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
"Ozymandias" ( ) is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner of London.
The poem was the result of a friendly competition between Shelley and fellow poet Horace Smith, using the subject of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, Ozymandias being the Greek name for the pharaoh. Both Shelley's poem and Smith's "Ozymandias" explore the ravages of time to which the legacies of even the greatest are subject.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ozymandias” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.