Reading Responses to a Poem- Ozymandias



Reading Responses to a Poem- Ozymandias

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to expand the boundaries of our knowledge by exploring some relevant information relating to Percy Bysshe Shelley's “Ozymandias". Ozymandias" is one of Percy Bysshe Shelley's best-known poems, primarily perhaps because of its deftly ironic structure and because of the moral that it points: that the mighty will certainly fall. He wrote it in a sonnet contest with his friend Horace Smith, the subject being the inscription on a pedestal on which only the legs remain, as described by a much-quoted account given by the ...