Humility Humans
(One Messages From Ozymandias,Wind, and Skylark) Percy Bysshe Shelley is an author that was during the romantic philosophical era. Shelley wrote many popular poems such as, “Ode to the West Wind”, “To a Skylark” and “Ozymandias”. Even though he had an early death he managed to impact the world with his poems. People have taken away messages from his work that impacted their lives forever and helped form people for who they are. For example, White once mentions,“All else being equal, we normally think highly of such modest types” (White). After reading Shelley's poems it people will definitely feel modest about who they are. They will realize that they are not as amazing as they say they are. In the poems, Ozymandias,Wind, and…show more content… The poem is about a pharaoh a long time ago by the name of Ramsey's, he built cities and statues all over the place just for himself because he was so conceded. He praised himself and thought very highly of himself. He thought he was a god. In the poem, on one of the statues it states, “Looks on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” (line 11). The author is reading this on the statue that is collapsed and buried in sand. It is very ironic seeing how someone so powerful who thought he was a god could just lose everything. Power is never just kept at some point you lose the power. Even the Queen of England will lose power when she dies. There is no way to avoid it. Szczepanski infers in an article, “When China's Qing Dynasty fell the end of the nation's incredibly long imperial” (Szczepanski). This goes to show that no matter how long the Dynasty or how long you are in power you will always lose power. Not one person can keep power for so long. Eventually you will die and be forgotten for everything that you ever did. Just like the pharaoh did in this poem. No matter how great he was he was eventually…show more content… Shelley does a rather strange way of portraying this message in this poem. Throughout the whole poem he keeps repeating how the wind will wreak havoc on the leaves and the ocean and the clouds. Shelley mentions, “O Wind, If Winter comes, can spring be far behind” (line 69). This statement shows that after all the bad that happens including the wind ruining the trees. The wind blows all the leaves off the trees and creates huge waves. After all the disaster that happens there is something good that always follows. Rao implies, “don’t worry, whatever happens, it’s for your own good” (Rao). What this means is that even if something bad happens, there is something good always to follow. There will always be something good to look forward to and to help us get through the bad. No matter how bad it is there is something good that comes of it. This gives us hope and helps people get through all the bad
