![]() The irony in the poem lies in the fact that the mighty ruler had the following words engraved on his statue “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings Look upon my works ye Mighty and despair!” These words conveyed he was so powerful that no other king could surpass him. ![]() Even the most ruthless dictators will one day die, and what they regarded as their eternal achievements will also eventually pass on. It is temporal, not eternal, no matter how powerful or fearsome a particular ruler may be. The main message of Shelley’s “Ozymandias” is that political power is not destined to last. The colossal monument to the apparently self-styled ‘King of Kings’ has shattered, illustrating the precarious, transitory nature of his power. Ozymandias was the Greek name of Pharaoh Ramses II. Who created Ozymandias?Ī sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), written in 1817. ![]() It first appeared in book form in Shelley’s Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue with Other Poems (1819). Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote “Ozymandias” in 1817, and it was first published in the Examiner in 1818. ![]()
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