«Ozymandias», de Shelley.
Lectura en español por Verónica del Carpio
«Ozymandias», poema del poeta inglés Shelley. Lectura en castellano por Verónica del Carpio, en este enlace: https://clipchamp.com/watch/9qF4Hf1UEIa/embed
Sobre la inevitable transitoriedad y decadencia del poderoso, hasta del más arrogante.
«Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) is often thought of as a rebel and revolutionary. It is appropriate, then, that ‘Ozymandias’ – one of his most famous poems – is a warning about the arrogance of great leaders. The poem is thought to have been inspired by a gigantic statue of Rameses II that was bought for the British Museum by the Italian explorer Giovanni Belzoni. It was written in late 1817 as part of a competition between Shelley and his friend Horace Smith, and was published in The Examiner in January 1818.
‘Ozymandias’ is a sonnet, written in iambic pentameter, and gains much of its power from the taut compression of its language. Its vivid evocation of the ruined statue underlines the hubris of Ozymandias’ proud boast ‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ The irony is, of course, that the Mighty will despair – not at the power of Ozymandias, but at the recognition that their power is ultimately transitory.» [British Library https://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item126940.html. En ese mismo enlace figura grabación en audio en inglés]
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