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What does the title suggest about Ozymandias |
| Answer» Ozium means "\'breath" or "air, and mandate means "to rule", In other words Ozymandias means Breathe to rule."Ozymandias," a simple, one-word title, suggests the focus of the poem will be on Ozymandias, whoever that might be. The name sounds "Oriental," and at the time Shelley wrote the poem, in 1819, there was much interest in England in all things "Oriental," so the title would have sparked interest in contemporary audiences. (As Edward Said has shown, "the Orient" stretched in the popular imagination as a "single monolith" from the Middle East to Asia.). | |