Friday 25 April 2014

Response to Ozymandias

I really enjoyed the poem. Though I had to read it a couple times to really get a feeling for the atmosphere. Ozymandias presents a sort of myth, due to its ambiguous context. Nobody really knows if what it speaks of is true. It's just the story of an ancient statue in the middle of the desert. No context to the statue's construction is given, only a slight description and a reference to Ozymandias. It being vague like that allows the reader to really create their own story behind it all and take their own meaning from the it. It is a poem for everyone to read.

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