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Questions related to the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822) and his work.

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In Ozymandias, who is the "ye" in the line "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" meant...

"Look on my works ye mighty and despair." First point: you are correct, the ye is equivalent to you. Second point: the reason he uses ye instead of you is because it is supposedly an ancient inscript …
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