Apraku's "Ozymandias Complex"

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• Amenkakure 11 years ago

  … reminds one of the globally celebrated poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the great and immortalized English poet, about an ancient absolute monarch, or tyrant, who erected a giant-sized statue of himself in his sprawling domi ...
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  … reminds one of the globally celebrated poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the great and immortalized English poet, about an ancient absolute monarch, or tyrant, who erected a giant-sized statue of himself in his sprawling dominion, in hopes of immortalizing himself.
  Not that I give a hoot about NPP infighting, the statement above by the so called the great and immortalized English poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley had it all wrong. The “Ozymandias Complex” was nothing but propaganda against Ramesses II, the ancient Kemetic King (not Egyptian) who ruled his kingdom for 67 years. The writer, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe instead of instilling knowledge to the youth of Ghana rather poisons their minds with inaccurate information like the above. Go to Egypt today and you see the millions and millions of people who are there studying the uninterrupted 67 years of Ramesses rule. Okoampa would rather give credit to an English propagandist for vilifying an African King by describing him as the great and immortalized poet. Immortalized? The very word P. S. Shelley used to define the policies of Ramesses the Great is used by Ahoofe to describe this notorious so called English poet. What a shame.

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• Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 11 years ago

  You should appreciate Okoampa's analogy without reaching into the poem's abstracted background in order to criticize him....
  Okoampa is simply comparing the grandiose declarations by Ozymandias and Apraku and mocking the fat ...
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  You should appreciate Okoampa's analogy without reaching into the poem's abstracted background in order to criticize him....
  Okoampa is simply comparing the grandiose declarations by Ozymandias and Apraku and mocking the fate that later befell the two.
  In Bysshe Shelley's poem, Ozymandias declared, "Look upon my work and despair!" At the start of Apraku's campaign, he declared, " I strike fear in my opponents." But in the end, Ozymandias' head lies trunkless in the desert whilst Apraku is relegated to the bottom of the list of contestants. Herein lies the thrust of Okoampa's analogy, and you should give him his due without losing yourself in the esoteric histology of Ramesses' rule. For once, let us enjoy a writer's interpretation of a literary piece without its Afrocentric twist.

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