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ozymandias (half sunk a shattered visage lays (sibilance (sound of wind…
ozymandias
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nothing besides remains
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while power and wealth are significant in the moment, after death, everything declines.
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my names is Ozymandias, king of kings, look on my works ye mighty and dispair
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It is a bold, confident statement, declaring a strange, long, harsh-sounding, exotic name.
Old Testament biblical, setting himself as a god
The archaic term ‘ye, mighty’ distances the reader; the space of centuries increases the mystique.
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Ozymandias is the corrupted Greek version of the name of the actual Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses II.