Ozymandias

• context

  • narrator meets a traveller
  • is told about a decaying statue in the dessert
• themes

  • human power
  • power of nature
  • pride
• " the lone and level sands stretch far away "
• " shattered visage "
• " shattered visage "

  • warped sense of legacy - destroyed - corrupting pride
  • violence
  • ironic
  • forgotten and destroyed by nature
• " wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command "
• " wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command "

  • disgust - disregard for his subjects - viewed as inferior
  • arrogance
  • ruthless leader who only cared for himself
• comparison

  • london
  • my last duchess
  • nature poems