Please write a 2 page essay on the poem by Shelley, Ozymandias. Draw on your knowledge to discuss the themes of the poem. Pick out one existential theme and focus on it. I am interested in your experience of the theme.
Please cut and paste the essay into the body of an email to me. Do not use BB. Please submit by December 17.
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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.”