quotes

• 'vast and trunkless legs of stone'


  trunk = torso - no upper body, just the legs

  spent his money on a large stature of himself instead of caring for his people - vein
• 'the hand that mocked them'


  he belittled his people - tyrant
• 'the heart that fed'


  sometimes he helped - helped with control and power
• 'my name is Ozymandias, King of Kings

  Look upon my work ye mighty and despair'


  its Ozymandias speaking

  'King of Kings' - self absorbed, arrogant - he's calling himself a God as people believed God chose kings and he is the ruler of Kings so he is God

  'Look on my works' - 'look' = imperative, he's forcing the powerful to look at his work, he's showing off

  'Ye mighty' - addressing the most powerful in the lands

  'Despair' - fear he wants to be feared by the powerful people
• 'nothing besides remains' 


  ironic

  nothing he has made is still here in the present

  shows how power is temporary as his statue is gone

  he is irrelevant in todays society
• 'colossal wreck'


  colossal - big

  wreck - damage

  ozy has caused a massive amount of damage to nature as he disrupted it to build his statue

  could also link to the damage he did as a ruler
• 'boundless and bare

  the lone and level sand stretches far away' 


  boundless - endless

  bare - nothing is there

  sand is undisturbed as if ozy never existed

  shows how nature will eventually take away our history

  power is temporary compared to nature

  sand stretches - sibilance alltieration