Ozymandias Help

[Valen]

I am working on a presentation for an English Lit class over Percy Shelley's Ozymandias poem. I want to include a history of the person the poem is about and throw in the modern day X-Men references to suprise the class.

I was wondering if anyone could please post any scanned artwork they have of the character or direct me at some online. All of my Backissues with the character in it are up at my father's house and I will not be able to get ahold of them in time.

[Lanowar]

From the Preview of Apocalypse V Dracula

http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/Apocalypse/XDRAC001010_jpeg.jpg

Best I could get on such short notice...

[malephoenix]

If I had a scanner, I'd throw you some of Joe Mad's old stuff. His renditions of Ozzy were incredible.

[Steve Rogers]

You'd be much better off referencing Ozymandias from Alan Moore's Watchmen. Watchmen has much more literary merit then the X-men. Shelly is even quoted a couple times in the book.

[Valen]

You'd be much better off referencing Ozymandias from Alan Moore's Watchmen. Watchmen has much more literary merit then the X-men. Shelly is even quoted a couple times in the book.
While that is very true, since the X-Men Ozymandias is supposed to be the real character (Ramsses II) that the poem is about, I thought it would make an interesting side note.

[The Lucky One]

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Amazing, amazing poem. This doesn't have to do with Ozymandias, the X-Men character, but the poem was used to great effect as an epilogue to the original Ultron story in Avengers #57. If you can find a way to photocopy that page and show it to your class, might be worth your while.

-D