Poem 30 - Ozymandias (H.S.)

[me]

Ozymandias - Horace Smith (1779-1849)

In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:
"I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,
"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
The wonders of my hand." The City's gone,
Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.
We wonder, and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chase,
He meets some fragments huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.

-How is this poem different from Shelley's Ozymandias? How is it the same? What is different in the theme of Smith's Ozymandias poem?

[me]

  Dear Mr.Cunningham,

I belive that this poem is better than the other Ozymanias because i feel this one is more real and powerful.

[me]

        I think that the first Ozymandias poem we did by Percy Bysshe Shelley was better story wise, because it described the story so beautifully and well, that even if it wasn't easy to memorize it made me work just that much harder. This version of the story is also very good. I wonder if both of the authors intentionally made sonnets for the same story? I wonder if this was another challenge to see which poem would get more publicity? Both the authors have written a sonnet about the same thing, but they have also written a sonnet with the same number of syllables in each line: 10!

        I think that king Ozymandias intentionally tore what ever he built (which made the might "despair"), to raise suspense for whoever came along in 100 years. It would be an interesting topic. Or maybe he was raided by another egyption king. I wonder why noone else wanderd through th desert and did not notice. "A gigantic leg"? I think when Horace said, in line 9: " We wonder, and some hunter may express" I think he meant a literal hunter looking for food with his friend "London" ( line 11) and just randomly runs into a big leg in the middle of the desert. Or maybe he's a tourist? Overall i love both of the poems

                                                                                                                       Sincerely, August Cheney :)

[me]

The poem is different from shelly's poem because it has different words and statments.It's the same because it has the same idea. The difference in theme is that he is seeing it in a musem rather than discovering it.
- emily Kippax

[me]

            The Noval that asked to erase it self analyas                                              Mia Tallaksen                 3-21-14

This poem is deffernt from Shelley's ozmandias because, when he is talking about what the pedsool said both are wored diffrently but mean the same thing. The theme for Smiths is a little every were and confusing but, Shelly's stays in one place and makes complets sence. Thit is my point off view for this poem.

[class]

I think that this Ozymandias is better because it has a rhyme and it I like the language better.

         

Daniel

[class]

this poem is different deffinetly in vocab it has  really  weird words like babylon   

and its the same cuase of the topic and the way he speaks when he tlks he finds really siffisticated words like saith or nought

Brett Stone