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Daily posts go in this thread instead of new ones you fucks

Day 5!!!!!!!!!
Ozymandias
BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . 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 passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

>> No.12393727

>>12393680
the zoom out effect in the last two lines is very potent. gives one a feeling of the immensity of time.

>> No.12394808

Can I request Pope for tomorrow

>> No.12396311

>>12393727
The zoom in effect at the beginning-
>I met a traveller from an antique land
>Who said..
puts me in mind of the ancient mariner's accosting of the wedding guest, when he says
>There was a ship..
...

>tfw being accosted by a sooth-saying old storyteller all but unlikely in 2019

>> No.12397108

>>12393680
I wonder how Percy felt by being in the shadow of his wife in recognition for most of his life.
Anyway, my favorite part of the poem is the doublemeaning you can get out of the title. Ozymandias, "ruler of air". That can both mean that he rules everything or that he rules nothing at all. It creates a pretty clear antithesis that is then followed in the poem itself.

>> No.12397113

>>12393680
I wonder how Percy felt by being in the shadow of his wife in recognition for most of his life.
Anyway, my favorite part of the poem is the doublemeaning you can get out of the title. Ozymandias, "ruler of air". That can both mean that he rules everything or that he rules nothing at all. It creates a pretty clear antithesis that is then followed in the poem itself.

>> No.12397179

>>12397108
>>12397113
Samefag

>> No.12397261

>>12397179
Well, it is literally the same post so... duh?
I'm phoneposting so I messed up, sorry