Ozymandias

• How could we analysis "Half sunk a shattered visage lies"

  The statue is crumbling and has been destroyed, nature has eroded over the statue, highlighting natures power.
• How could we analysis "The lone and level sands strech far away"


  Shelley structually ends the poem with an image of the power of nature and how it overpowers man.
• How can we analysis "My name is ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works , ye mighty, and despair!"

  Ozy has a arrogant tone, which is ironic as his "workers" actually did all of the work, not him.
• How can we analysis "Whose frown and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command"


  The use of harsh alliteration for "wrinkled lip" and "cold command" can highlight ozy's harsh leadership, and bad nature
• How can we analysis "Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things"


  Even after ozy persists, art lives on whilst ozy's power gets destroyed.
• Ozymandias is a sonnet about selflove and narcissim, leading to the eventual point of nature taking over.