What is the meaning Ozymandias?

What is the meaning Ozymandias? noun. figurative. A tyrant, a dictator, a megalomaniac; someone or something of immense size, a colossus. The current widespread use probably derives from Shelley’s sonnet of 1817 entitled Ozymandias, in which the poet describes ‘the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare’. What is the literal meaning of Ozymandias … Continue reading What is the meaning Ozymandias?