As the poem begins, a “traveller from an antique land” turns up as a mechanism for reporting the news from the desert. The “lone and level sands stretch far away” into a vanishing distance at the end.

How forgettable are you? Or, to put a more positive spin on the question, how memorable are you? The other day I was leafing through an old English literature textbook from my undergraduate days.

The sonnet “Ozymandias,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, rose again this week. A trailer for the final season of Breaking Bad featured Walter White reciting the poem, first published in 1818 ...

Christopher de Vinck reflects on the coconut vendor he met outside of the Vatican, after meeting John Paul II. Power is not kings, popes or president, but ...

The beauty with Nagenda’s prose is that it is thinly veiled poetry. His book also reveals him as a grammarian who dots the ...

The allusion in the title "Ozymandias" refers to the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem of the same name, and deliberately subverts the sense of gliding triumph Walt had so recently felt. Walt and Jesse ...

While the pacing may be confusing at first, there is a lot to unpack from the film, and importantly, the poem "Ozymandias," read by Ben Starr. Bungie has proven to be a master at weaving intricate ...

This article contains spoilers for Succession season 4 episode 9. Though they may not be conventionally intelligent (and in many cases they’re outright dumb), Logan Roy’s children sure are a ...

But at the core, at his core, it’s all about the word and here are some from his poem “Ozymandias at Damascus”: time to leave. Perhaps it’s time to leave Damascus, leave the mask behind.

Akala:So, here we are on Crosby beach, which is an interesting place to come when we think about the poem Ozymandias—this ancient king who has this statue that, in some ways, is going to allow ...