Shelley’s angry, violent poem was written in direct response to the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819, in which a demonstration in favour of parliamentary reform was attacked by local yeomanry, ...

Hannah Lowe:So I think in the short poem within the sonnet, Shelley delivers quite a complicated portrait of the statue depicting the real man. Akala:Yeah. Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley ...