ozymandias

• 1. poem displays fleeting nature of human power and Shelley's Romanticism views on permanence of nature compared to human power
• 2. attempts to make himself remembered but fails

  • "king of kings"
  • "two vast and trunkless legs" -> "shattered visage"
  • "Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair" -> "colossal wreck"
• 3. cannot compare to immortality of nature

  • "lone and level sands" - deification of nature
  • statue is extended metaphor to hold onto power never made for mankind
  • "half sunk" into sand - consumed by nature
• • corrupted sonnet form presents corrupt love for control from Ozymandias