gopakumar
09-15-05, 10:04 AM
Hi,
Anyone have heard about Ozymandias. If not I will tell u who he is. He was the proud emperor whom Percy Bysshe Shelly damned in his poem
" Ozymandias ". But I like because he was proud of himself. He according to Shelley made a colossus of his shape and carved the following:
" My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty or despair"
Shelley wrote that poem to destroy the selfishness and the proudness of man whereas I write this to arouse them. What is wrong if one is proud about his powers, skills etc? What is wrong with ones confidence to face any thing in life? Shelley tld that he challenged even Gods but I would like to say it in another way : he had the guts to challenge Gods, whom we consider as the most powerful and that one cant do anything above them. So let us all try to be an Ozymandias rather than an incompetent.
Anyone have heard about Ozymandias. If not I will tell u who he is. He was the proud emperor whom Percy Bysshe Shelly damned in his poem
" Ozymandias ". But I like because he was proud of himself. He according to Shelley made a colossus of his shape and carved the following:
" My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty or despair"
Shelley wrote that poem to destroy the selfishness and the proudness of man whereas I write this to arouse them. What is wrong if one is proud about his powers, skills etc? What is wrong with ones confidence to face any thing in life? Shelley tld that he challenged even Gods but I would like to say it in another way : he had the guts to challenge Gods, whom we consider as the most powerful and that one cant do anything above them. So let us all try to be an Ozymandias rather than an incompetent.