Happy #WorldPoetryDay! 📚
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
This statue of Ramesses II inspired Percy Bysshe Shelley to write his sonnet ‘Ozymandias’ ow.ly/TH2b30qr1aj
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The Young Memnon, that also brought Giovani Batista Belzoni to prominence; though I was always led to believe it was the shattered colossus, still in situ at the Ramesseum, that inspired the poem. Shows that you're never too old to learn something new😉
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My all time favourite piece in the BM. I wonder when I will gaze upon his might again. Shelley's words sure strike home at the moment.
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See also WB Yeats’ poem, The Second Coming. Not inspired by statuary but apropos to the current climate nonetheless.
Watched this last night how's that for a coincidence and Shelley's Sonnet was narrated at the end 😁👍
Your David is NOT malfunctioning, but as soon as he starts attributing that’s quote to Byron watch out.
Although when he wrote the poem he had not seen the statue for himself.
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