Two themes of the "Ozymandias" poems are the inevitable decline of rulers and their hubris. In the poem, Ozymandias wants to own the world, much like Al Pacino’s character, Antonio Montana, in ...

Actor Matthew Goode, who portrays Henry Talbot in Seasons 5 and 6 of the ITV/PBS series Downton Abbey and the 2019 sequel of the same name, has spoken about the reasons behind his absence from the ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

This week my dear friend, Penny, sent me a powerful poem, read beautifully by an older woman, my age or older I presume, on Instagram. Titled “Let Them,” it spoke directly to my heart in a ...

The Younger Memnon may be most famous because it is said to have inspired the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to write the poem "Ozymandias" — the Greek name for Ramesses II. Egyptology was a ...

Ozymandias is still, to this day, one of the greatest episodes in television history. Here are seven major things that happened in it. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu.

Refaat’s poem “ If I Must Die” has been shared widely since he was killed. On social media, an impromptu effort translated it into dozens of languages: Spanish, Italian, Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

“Ozymandias” is still the textbook example of television horror for the last 10 years and will be for at least another 10. Ad. Breaking Bad is available to stream on Netflix in the U.S. and U.K.

In this moving poem, a school teacher weeps for the children who were killed on June 16 1976. They died, he says, and were buried with today's hope. The current regime is a puppet of the engineers of ...

Ozymandias 2. A poem for Monday. By James Parker. The Atlantic. October 4, 2021. Share. Save. I met a traveller from an antique land, who said: “Give me 40 million dollars.