...well; perhaps it will someday evoke to others the ruins of our own civilization: / met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless...Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sun/(, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that...

...and write them in the blank provided. Then underline the syllables that have those vowel sounds. 1. I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two...vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . 2. Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken!...

...statue in a sonnet both beautiful and terrible, entitled by one of Rameses' many names, "Ozymandias": / met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunk/ess legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage...

...civilizations buried under . . . nothing. In "Ozymandias," Shelley mocked their pretensions: . . . Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the...command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read . . . And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is O/.ymandias, king of kings: Look on my works,...

...think I'm only just beginning to figure it out myself. Chapter 1 Sums and Differences I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless...them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies . . . Percy Bysshe Shelley 1.1. Polygonal Numbers The Greek word gnomon means the pointer on a sundial,...

...forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. [1807] I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two...trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near the, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold...

...heap of ancient ruins'.6 This suggests a subconscious recollection of Shelley's 'Ozymandias': . . . Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the...them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies. . . . Weeks detects a further Shellean source of 'The Second Coming' in 'Prometheus Unbound' (i. lines...

...gigantic statue of Ramses II. It inspired him to write the following poem: Ozymandias 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, 10. SeeLeask,2. Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,...

...universe really was, to his eyes. His sonnet "Ozymandias" is one of doubt's great poems. It begins: "I met a traveler from an antique land / Who said:...on the sand, / Half sunk, a shattered visage lies . . .'" This huge, broken face sneers its "cold command," unaware that its moment is over. The poem...

...head. It is the expression that Shelley concentrates on - and on what it reveals of the lost empire. Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And...command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read . . . 80 There is an inscription that identified the once-great ruler: 'My name is Ozymandias, king...