" This poet wrote a sonnet warning mankind that "knowledge must to thee, like the great flflood of Egypt, ever be."A better known poem by this author lists a starved people, an army, religion, and a senate as "graves from which a gloriousPhantom may burst to illumine our tempestuous day," and includes the image of "Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know"who cling "leech-like" to "their fainting country . . .
One poem by this author describes an unlucky person who moved "through the unheeding many," like a "bright blotupon this gloomy scene," and calls Fear and Hope "twin destinies; who ever weave their shadows, o'er the chasm, sightlessand drear." This poet wrote a sonnet warning mankind that "knowledge must to thee, like the great flflood of Egypt, ever be."A better known poem by this author lists a starved people, an army, religion, and a senate as "graves from which a gloriousPhantom may burst to illumine our tempestuous day," and includes the image of "Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know"who cling "leech-like" to "their fainting country . . . Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow." This poet began one ofhis sonnets with the line "Liftft not the painted veil which those who live call Life," and wrote another that states "an old, mad,blind, despised, and dying king" ruled "England in 1819." In his most famous poem, he described a "wrinkled lip, and sneer ofcold command" belonging to a statue beckoning its viewers to "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" For 10 points,name this Romantic poet who wrote "Ozymandias."
One poem by this author describes an unlucky person who moved "through the unheeding many," like a "bright blotupon this gloomy scene," and calls Fear and Hope "twin destinies; who ever weave their shadows, o'er the chasm, sightlessand drear.
Peter Bysshe Shelley