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  • They sounded a bit like poetry, and I remembered the name Ozymandias from a poem which I had found in a book, one of the dozen or so on the shelf in the parlor.

    The White Mountains John Christopher 2003

  • They sounded a bit like poetry, and I remembered the name Ozymandias from a poem which I had found in a book, one of the dozen or so on the shelf in the parlor.

    The White Mountains John Christopher 2003

  • Whereas the landscape in "Ozymandias" reflects the barren and desiccated prophecy of tyranny however, that of "On the Medusa" seems to figure forth the Medusa's fertility -- even after her dismemberment.

    Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis 1996

  • Adrian Veidt, a.k.a. Ozymandias, is one of the most ambiguous figures in modern literature.

    The Moral Exemplars of Watchmen | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

  • Although Ozymandias is clearly troubled by the deaths he caused, he ultimately belived that he did the right thing.

    The Moral Exemplars of Watchmen | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

  • Medusa's decapitation leads to a form of rebirth, while the dislocation in Ozymandias augurs a panorama of "lone and level sands". back

    Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis 1996

  • Moore wants the reader to focus his attention on the expression Ozymandias wears and the pat content of the eulogy.

    The Edge of the American West 2009

  • After waffling all day (it felt so permanent), I finally settled on Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" -- a poem I liked but didn't have a real emotional connection with.

    John Lundberg: Share Your Favorite Poem With Us! 2009

  • Or, if he had the lyrical skills of Percy Shelley, he might express it more elegantly, as in Shelley's sonnet poem "Ozymandias" - another name for Ramesses the Great, Pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt, whose headless statue was found in the desert.

    Desert Chic?--or Death in the Dunes? Obama Walks a Fine Line. 2009

  • After waffling all day (it felt so permanent), I finally settled on Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" -- a poem I liked but didn't have a real emotional connection with.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

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  • The name of an Egyptian King of Kings from a poem.

    August 1, 2015