But Can The Steam Engine Do All This?

New Horizons in Poetry Appreciation:  Greg Perry is listing somewhat. To starboard, to port, what does it matter? 

Here is my own first attempt, another variant on a recurring theme:

Ozymandias in list format:

• Who I met
  • A traveler
• From?
  • An antique land
• Who said:
  • Two legs
    • vast
    • trunkless
    • of stone
    • standing
  • Where
    • In the desert
      • boundless and bare
      • sands low and level
  • Also in the vicinity
    
    • A visage
      • Shattered
      • Frowning
      • Sneering
        • with cold command
      • Telling
        • of its sculptor's wry understanding of long-lived passions
    • A pedestal
      • Inscribed with:
        
        • Name
          • "Ozymandias"
        • Title
          • "King of kings"
        • Instructions to the mighty
          • "Look"
            • On his works
        • "Despair"
    • Nothing beside

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[On an altogether unfrivolous note, let me also recommend Greg's photo, currently on his sidebar, of the moon on Frenchman Bay.]

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Special Lone Star State Update [3/29/05]: Attention Cowtown Pattie!  The great Ozymandias' vast and trunkless legs have apparently been sighted in Amarillo.  Further details here.

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Additional, Coyly Blushing Update [4/7/05]:  Welcome, readers from 2blowhards and dustbury!   Thank you for your kind attentions.   You may also enjoy my April 1 post, which presents Shakespeare's Sonnet XVIII as a PowerPoint slideshow.

[Also: in the course of this update, I discovered that I never linked the particular Greg Perry post -- in which Robert Frost and his two roads in the wood receive the "list" treatment -- that started this.   Mea culpa, Greg.   The matter stands corrected.]

Comments

[Greg]

Bravo! Much better than my poorly drawn list. But then again that's why I always have troubles at the grocery store. Yet I've always wanted to start a meme. "Nothing beside."

[Cowtown Pattie]

How the heck have I missed these gams? I know about the Cadillac Ranch, but never knew such a statue existed! Just goes to show you, Texas is full of it - amazement, that is.

Thanks, Ozzy!

[bridget]

http://legs.free.fr/ More Texas legs for you and Miss Pattie.

[bridget]

http://legs.free.fr/ More Texas legs for you and Miss Pattie. (Via Plep)

[Cowtown Pattie]

Thanks, Bridget!