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 ...

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 beauty with Nagenda’s prose is that it is thinly veiled poetry. His book also reveals him as a grammarian who dots the ...

"Ozymandias" is the Greek name for Ramesses II and was the inspiration and name of an 1818 poem by Percy Shelley. A plaque near the gigantic legs reads: In 1819, while on their horseback trek over ...

I met a traveller from an antique land, who said: “Give me 40 million dollars. I’m resurrecting my imploded multimedia empire. And this time I’m calling it Shattered Visage Media. Or no ...

(READ: TIME’s recap of ‘Ozymandias’) The poem tells the story of a traveller who has seen an ancient monument in the desert. The giant legs are all that remains standing of what was once a ...

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 ...

While the pacing may be confusing at first, there is a lot to unpack from the film, and importantly, the poem "Ozymandias," read by Ben Starr. Bungie has proven to be a master at weaving intricate ...

This article contains spoilers for Succession season 4 episode 9. Though they may not be conventionally intelligent (and in many cases they’re outright dumb), Logan Roy’s children sure are a ...

While the pacing may be confusing at first, there is a lot to unpack from the film, and importantly, the poem "Ozymandias," read by Ben Starr. Bungie has proven to be a master at weaving intricate ...