As the poem begins, a “traveller from an antique land” turns up as a mechanism for reporting the news from the desert. The “lone and level sands stretch far away” into a vanishing distance at the end.

The sonnet “Ozymandias,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, rose again this week. A trailer for the final season of Breaking Bad featured Walter White reciting the poem, first published in 1818 ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Ozymandias is the basis for a trailer for the latest - and final - season of cult US TV drama Breaking Bad. Why, asks Ben Milne. The minute-long trailer simply consists ...