‘The American Sector’ Speaks Volumes About Freedom With Eloquent Silence [Berlin Review]

“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.”Percy Bysshe Shelley’s iconic poem, “Ozymandias,” since its publication in 1818, has endured as a tribute to the diminishing power of empires and the insubstantiality of nations for centuries—a sustaining reminder that leaders and monuments perceived to be indestructible will fade into dust.Continue reading ‘The American Sector’ Speaks Volumes About Freedom With Eloquent Silence [Berlin Review] at The Playlist.

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