whats that poem....

[Chance1234]

with the guy on the pedestal ?

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[CajunCenturion]

Can you provide any other clues?

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[Chance1234]

a guy on a pedestal that has fallen down out side an ancient city or has not falled down but is outside an ancient city.



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[LesleyW]

? the only thing that comes to mind is Horatio on the bridge..

Those at the back cried "Forward!"
Those at the front cried "Back!"

but I don't think that's what you're after.

Is this poem modern or older?

 

[CajunCenturion]

I'm still not sure. Where are you going with this?

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[Chance1234]

its a very very old poem. and quite famous too.

Im rackign my brains over this, but i think the person on the pedestal is at the entrace to what was once a city but is now destroyed. or a city that was once great.

its been bugging me since i was on the train yesterday,

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[Chance1234]

oh oh oh and theres a traveller or something and he asks what the eyes of the man on the pedestal have seen ?

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[CajunCenturion]

Could it be "Ozymandias"

"I met a traveler 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 shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked 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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1818

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[Chance1234]

thats the bugger, cheers.

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[johnwm]

Are you sure it's not Humpty Dumpty you're thinking about?

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