Ozymandias

ironic.............isint it

because its better?

>>9045528
This.
Shelley's poem is better and Shelley is an overall better (and better known) poet.

>>9045533
yeah Here is Horace Smith's

In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:—
"I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,
"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
"The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,—
Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.

We wonder,—and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.[10]
here is Shelley's
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.[4]

>>9045555
Shelley seems to be able to say alot more by using less than what Horace does

Horace's poem reads like a very pedantic, class piece of 'poesy'. The volta is very weak and distanced. Comparably, Shelley's poem is bursting with imagery - a stranger telling a story, amazing lines like "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read", dramatic turn comes right after a colourful description of the statue and hits like a brick

Ozymandias - As Read by Bryan Cranston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3dpghfRBHE

>>9045580
Not bad, but I'd rather prefer the 'My name is...' quote read in a regal, imperial tone, than le ebin Walter White voice

>>9045576
Do you think Horace tends to cram alot of stuff in it which is why his suffers...

he doesn't have that mastery of the subtle that Shelley has

>>9045595
its just not as good

Every line is Shelley's poem is sublime

>nothing beside remains