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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...