Which famous author wrote this Poem and what is the title? And do we need to take heed of its underlying warning of our own civilization?
sjalan
2012/07/31 16:18:26
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away
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Keeping It Real 2012/07/31 17:00:18
+3Percy Bysshe Shelley and I believe the first sentence is the actual title excluding the word who and said.
(By the way, desert is spelled this way, not with the A you gave it.);-)
Its message reminds me a little of the last scene in the original "Planet of the Apes," where we see part of the Statue of Liberty sticking out from seas and sands in a vast wasteland...
You must have been an English or Lit Teacher.!
The actual poem I cut and pasted from a website since I was too lazy to type it all out myself.