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Ozymandias Essay

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The poem “Ozymandias” written by Percy Bysshe Shelley is about a statue in Egypt which could be understood by the name of the poem. The speaker of this poem tells us about his learning from a traveler about a giant, ruined statue that lay broken and destroyed in the desert. Throughout the poem the speaker tells us about how the traveler describes the statue which looks strange, a pair of legs with head shattered lying in the sand. Even though the head is shattered in the sand, the face isn’t completely shattered because a frown, wrinkled lip and sneer could be still seen on the face. The traveler also praises the sculptor who made the statue because he has copied well the facial features and passions of the ruler. On the pedestal, the traveler

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