Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley is bases on a crumbling statue of a once great dictator by the name of Rameses II.

The poem is about the ruins of a statue of Ozymandias (another name for the Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II). The narrator of the poem says he met a traveller from an ancient land and then tells us the tale the traveller told him. The man had seen the remnants of a huge effigy in the desert. There were two gigantic legs without a trunk and next to them lay a ruined "visage" (face). At the foot of the statue were words which revealed the self-importance and arrogance of Ozymandias. Those words seem very hollow now as the once glorious statue is now shattered and all of the pharaoh's works have disappeared over time. The poem can be interpreted as a condemnation of leaders, monarchs or governments that believe themselves to be invincible.

Yellow group made some excellent comparisons to other dictators like Hitler, Stalin and of course Putin.