O the modern Ozymandias tyrant,
oppressive and cruel!
Why do you, like arrogant and
haughty balloons do swell
Why do you seize the sceptres by
all possible foul means
Why do you take over like the
stinking, unhygienic dustbins?
O the modern Ozymandias insane,
repressive and despotic!
Why do you thrive at he cost of
sweet and laudable logic
Why do you kindle to misuse your
wasteful, sinewy muscles
Why do you rain bloods and spread
broils, brawls and tussles?
O the modern Ozymandias, blind,
barbaric and savage!
Why do you nurture to torture the
innocent with your rage
Why do you lick public smiles with
your all gulping tongues
Why do you sing, on the poor,
wretched graves, your victory songs?
O the modern Ozymandias corrupt, vitriolic
and vice!
All your predecessors have paid,
and you too shall pay the price.
Nothing remains around except one’s
noble and virtuous deeds
For, injustice, at last, bleeds, while
Justice ever endures and leads!
N.B: The above poem is inspired by
P. B Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias”.
Sources: Wikipedia
Ozymandias was a Greek name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, who ruled from 1279 BCE to 1213 BCE, in the 19th
Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. Shelley began writing his poem in 1817, soon after the
announcement of the British Museum’s acquisition of a large fragment of a statue of Ramesses II
from the thirteenth century BCE, leading some scholars to believe that Shelley
was inspired by this. The 7.25-ton fragment of the statue's head and torso had
been removed in 1816 from the mortuary temple of Ramesses at Thebes by Italian adventurer Giovanni
Battista Belzoni. It was expected to arrive in London in 1818, but did not
arrive until 1821.[5][6] Shelley wrote the poem in friendly competition with his
friend and fellow poet Horace
Smith (1779–1849), who also wrote a sonnet on the same topic
with the same title. Smith's poem was published in The Examiner a few weeks after Shelley's sonnet. Both poems explore
the fate of history and the ravages of time: even the greatest men and the
empires they forge are impermanent, their legacies fated to decay into oblivion.
GLOSSARY:
* tyrant – tormenter/ dictator
* oppressive – cruel/ harsh
* repressive – cruel/ exploitive
*despotic - cruel/ autocratic
* laudable – praiseworthy
* kindle - stimulate
* broils - fights
*brawls – fights
*tussle - fights
* barbaric – cruel and uncivilized
*savage – wild/fierce
* gulp – swallowing
* wretched – miserable
* vitriolic – spiteful/ venomous
* predecessors – antecedents/here,
likeminded people of the past
©Shankar D Mishra Posted on blog: 23.08.2017
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Jay ho, Ozimandiacs!!! We're following your foot steps!Bless us to emulate!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful.. .. ..In injustice, justice glooms in justice , justice blooms.. ..
ReplyDeleteExcellent remake Sir Perhaps the modern Ozymandias could realize the fact......... ..Jai Shree Radha Madhaba
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