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a. Ozymandias meant it as a boast, but the contemporary reader interprets it as an admission of futility. b. The words were carved in a language that can no longer be read. c. There is no such thing as the “Mighty” anymore. d. Ozymandias had no idea his words would be quoted thousands of years later.

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a. Ozymandias meant it as a boast, but the contemporary reader interprets it as an admission of futility

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