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Alexis Lothian PhD Candidate in English University of Southern California Popular Culture and Classic Poetry: Watchmen’s “Ozymandias”
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Popular Culture and Classic Poetry: Watchmen's Ozymandias

May 21, 2015

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Alexis Lothian

A short presentation on the use of tropes from classic poetry in contemporary pop culture, working with the example of the movie and graphic novel Watchmen.
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Alexis LothianPhD Candidate in English

University of Southern California

Popular Culture and Classic Poetry:Watchmen’s “Ozymandias”

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two vast and trunkless legs of stone

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half sunk, a shattered visage lies

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nothing beside remains

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Where else have you seen resonances of “Ozymandias”? Have you noticed allusions to other works you’ve studied?

What does Watchmen’s use of “Ozymandias” suggest about our world? About efforts to improve it?

Do you think Shelley would approve of this use of his poem?