Jack had a major English assignment to hand in today which he did on Percy Bysshe Shelley's famous sonnet, Ozymandias. It is a great poem and Nona Lin, Diana and myself all helped him get it done. Jack's class was only given two weeks to finish the assignment so hopefully he has done well. It is worth 25% of his semester mark.
I
met a traveller from an antique land
Who
said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand
in the desert. 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.”
Abu Simbel where the torso and head of Ramesses II (known as Ozymandias in Greek)
was taken by the British in 1817 and currently resides in the British Museum.