President Donald Trump did not dispute that he is building monuments to himself amid his architectural blitz in Washington, DC, saying in a recent interview that “nobody will do it once I’m gone.”
" Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:"
“well those passions read”, wat?
“the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed” wat ?
The statue’s features “tell” that the sculptor read those “passions” (the cold sneer, etc.) in the monarch’s face, his general mood and way of treating the world. And in doing, those passions survive and appear in this statue.
I don’t really understand “the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed”.
mocked=imitated. So the skill of the sculptors hand that was able to capture the emotions (passions) that came from Ozymandias’ heart where those emotions truely lived. They were part of his core being, not an act or a face he had to put on to be able to rule.
It’s saying the sculptor was exceptionally skilled and was able to capture the very essence of Ozymandias’ being.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Shelley, “Ozymandias”
I might be stupid as f but what does this mean:
" Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear:"
“well those passions read”, wat?
“the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed” wat ?
The statue’s features “tell” that the sculptor read those “passions” (the cold sneer, etc.) in the monarch’s face, his general mood and way of treating the world. And in doing, those passions survive and appear in this statue.
I don’t really understand “the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed”.
mocked=imitated. So the skill of the sculptors hand that was able to capture the emotions (passions) that came from Ozymandias’ heart where those emotions truely lived. They were part of his core being, not an act or a face he had to put on to be able to rule.
It’s saying the sculptor was exceptionally skilled and was able to capture the very essence of Ozymandias’ being.
Ah, thank you, beautiful. So much of that passage amounts to “for real y’all, you could tell by looking, this dude was a jerk” lol
I’m more hoping to give him the Akhenaten treatment
the Lucius Crassius treatment is more apropos…
Why not both