Poll of the Day > Ozymandias > Shelley.

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And Shelley knew it.
So much so he wrote a poem about it.

People often are attracted to Ozymandias as a character in hearing the poem in spite of Shelley's intended meaning. How's that for irony. Hell, the mere writing on the stone in the poem itself as a quote from Ozymandias is what people often store in their memories.

People can rebel against authority all they want, but if Shelley had his way, the figure of authority he romanticized about as seen in the imagined eventual supremacy of political ideology of Thomas Paine would be no less an Ozymandias. But wait, that's ok because he "agrees" with it. Shelley needed an Ozymandias, just not the one he lived under.

It's funny because he would've loved America at its founding and by now you people would consider him old fashioned. And yet the fallacy in his perception of Ozymandias to him at that time created a similar illusion.

The only difference is, Shelley's statue engraving wouldn't be written so brash as was Ozymandias'. Even worse, Shelly would've crafted it to sound enlightened and thereby apparently without reproach. At least the posture of Ozymandias comes off as a challenge. Rather true to itself as power than some pretentious penchant for linguistic righteousness that I'm sure would be etched in well more than a mere sentence.

I'll take Ozymandias over Shelley any day.
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.....you sure you're on the right board, TC?
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