Ozymandias

Poet and spoken-word artist Jack Ramey reads Shelley’s sonnet, "Ozymandias," which is one of his most famous poems. It began as a friendly competition between Shelley and his friend Horace Smith, based on a recent announcement of the British Museum's acquisition of the adjacent statue. They chose a passage from the Greek Historian Diodorus, which described a massive Egyptian statue and quoted its inscription: "King of Kings Ozymandias am I." This fine poem reflects Shelley’s view that tyranny cannot last and that tyrants will always vanish in the end and return to the dust that they came from, as all things do.
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