In preparation for reading Connie Willis's latest novella, I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land, I went back and read Percy Bysshe Shelly's famous Romantic-era sonnet Ozymandias, which is the source for her title and informs her story. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, T Here's the poem in its entirety: I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Indeed, “the lone and level sands stretch far away” and will continue to stretch long after man ceases to walk them. They will shatter and break like the men who built them. All it does is evoke man’s own blackened heart. A statue does not define success a stone likeness is not tangible to Godliness. For all their monuments of human suffering and power, they achieved nothing. The lone and level sands stretch far away.” Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,Īnd wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone This is a poem with true universal value. Ozymandias is a simple homage to human power, to human corruption and to human ruling. He saw through the cracks of civilisation and human greed he saw what man has become and will always be unless he changes. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frow Percy Shelley saw the world for what it was, and what it will be. "I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Percy Shelley saw the world for what it was, and what it will be. Sculptor and illustrator Theo Gayer-Anderson lives in Egypt.more With an introduction by British poet Gerard Benson and notes for further reading, this book opens up to children a classic of Romantic poetry. In this unique interpretation of Ozymandias, Shelley and the traveler come to life in an extraordinary gallery of dreamlike illustrations. Ozymandias is the great pharoah Ramses II, whose statue Shelley imagined lying broken in the deset and whose name he chose as the title for his poem.
With these words the English poet Percy Shelley transported his readers to ancient Egypt. In this unique interpretati A picture book edition of the classic, Ozymandias, was composed in 1817 by P.B. "I met a traveler." With these words the English poet Percy Shelley transported his readers to ancient Egypt. A picture book edition of the classic, Ozymandias, was composed in 1817 by P.B.
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