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Introduction
"Ozymandias" is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). It was first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner of London. The poem was included the following year in Shelley's collection Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, and in a posthumous compilation of his poems published in 1826.
Shelley wrote the poem in friendly competition with his friend and fellow poet Horace Smith (1779-1849), who wrote a sonnet on the same topic with the same title. The poem explores the worldly fate of history and the ravages of time: Even the greatest men and the empires they forge are impermanent, their legacies fated to decay into oblivion. "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!", exemplifies the arrogance and hubris of a leader who believed his dominion would endure indefinitely.
In antiquity, Ozymandias was a Greek name for the pharaoh Ramesses II (r. 1279-1213 BC), derived from a part of his throne name, Usermaatre. In 1817, Shelley began writing the poem "Ozymandias", after the British Museum acquired the Younger Memnon, a head-and-torso fragment of a statue of Ramesses II, which dated from the 13th century BC. Earlier, in 1816, the Italian archaeologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni had removed the 7.25-short-ton (6.58 t; 6,580 kg) statue fragment from the Ramesseum, the mortuary temple of Ramesses II at Thebes, Egypt. The reputation of the statue fragment preceded its arrival to Western Europe; after his Egyptian expedition in 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte had failed to acquire the Younger Memnon for France. Although the British Museum expected delivery of the antiquity in 1818, the Younger Memnon did not arrive in London until 1821. Shelley published his poems before the statue fragment of Ozymandias arrived in Britain, and the view of modern scholarship is that Shelley never saw the statue, although he might have learned about it from news reports, as it was well known even in its previous location near Luxor.
Bluemoon’s Thoughts
This is my favourite poem. Underlying it is the question: How do you want to be remembered? Second to this question is a powerful reminder that Father Time will catch up with all of us eventually, and no matter what good or bad anyone did in their life, ultimately, in the end, it will all be forgotten. So does the first question even matter anyway?
Acknowledgements
Each video requires a substantial team effort to make. We would like to thank our voice over actor, Shane Morris, who tirelessly strives to deliver these words in a manner like no other. A special thanks to our graphic design artist, Cristina Santana for all her effort and helping bring the scene to life through the generation of AI generated art and images.
Copyright
Both the graphics and voiceover in this video are original pieces of work, and the poem is in the public domain. The music you hear is from Scott Buckley and can be found here: 'Borealis' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au.
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