There is always an inscribed construction of funerary monuments like pyramids and tombs. There was a concept of how a person will survive afterlife, so Ancient Egyptians used to bury resources, jewels, wealth and things of daily use like comb and spoons according to their status and position in the society. Ancient Egyptian culture is obsessed with the belief of death and afterlife. Shelley’s own interest in Egyptology reflected in his poems like Alastor, or, of The Spirit Solitude. When Egypt was invaded by Napoleon in 1798 and Mohammad Ali in 1806 more and more artistic works established in Egypt. In the 1820s when Jean-Francois Champollion deciphered one of Egyptian writing engraved on Rosetta stone awakens an interest in this ancient culture. With the starting up of 19th century a great interest developed in ancient Egyptian culture which marked the beginning of modern Egyptology. Get your price Thematic Analysis of Ozymandias Thus, the discovery of statue fragments inspired Shelley.
Thus, there were two sonnets published with similar title Ozymandias in Leigh Hunt’s Examiner, among the two Shelley’s Ozymandias was two one to gain popularity. After the discovery of fragments of statues of Ramesses II, Percy Shelley and his friend, the poet Horace Smith, challenged each other to write a poem on the same discovery, on the same subject, title, theme and form. According to the second book of Bible, “Exodus”, Ramesses was a pharoh at the time Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. Ramesses was a warrior king and he built up many temples, statues and other monuments in his lifetime, though his exact age of death remain uncertain. Ramesses II was born in 1314 BC and ruled Egypt for 66 years. Another name of Ramesses II is Ozymandias. As in the year 1817 news came up that archeologists had discovered fragments of the statue of Ramesses II and sending the pieces to the British museum. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem Ozymandias was first published in the year 1818.
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