Mayavati & statue mania - someone should read 'Ozymandias' to her: two vast trunkless legs of stone in the desert etc.
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 shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd 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.
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 shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd 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.
3 comments:
hahaha..we used to stand before the class and recite this poem, trying hard to please the 'miss'
So many statues of Mayawati is a good thing. Every time you want to vent your spleen on the lady you go to her nearest statue and do the honours (rotten egg/tomato, BS, paint, old shoe etc etc - use your imagination please).
In ye olde days Andhra Pradesh used have a CM called Neelam Sanjiva Reddy. He got his statue put up so his adoring masses could adore him at all times. That was in the socialist days when the public was quite restless and agitating frequently. So the statue used to face the brunt and a posse of cops had to be posted to guard it from said adoring masses. I believe it was finally smashed up by striking steel workers, the cops proving inadequate (or maybe glad to be finally rid of a damned nuisance).
Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy's statue was smashed and thrown down into the adjacent Krishna Canal during the Jai Andhra Agitation in 1971. I do not know whether it has been reinstalled.
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