Shelley: '"visage': Shelley shows Irony that the king had so much pride and vanity in his appearance, that he ordered it to be encapsulated which captured cruelty and indifference
Ironic: The poem tells others to despair of greatness, but Ozymandias also despairs at his lackofpower and that his works wouldn't stand the test of time
'Ozymandias' was written during the Napoleonic wars, when Britain was at war with France.
In 'Ozymandias', Shelley uses the statue of Ozymandias to represent Napoleon. The poem can therefore be seen as a political statement about the downfall of Napoleon and his empire.
Alliteration: emphasise the vast and mighty extent of nature. Humans- power eroded and chipped away by time, nature enjoys transcendent power. → shows futility human power
Boundless and bare': ein ressentiment that everything is from the earth so it must return to it. Ozy's priver has returned to the barren and endiers desert from wheme it came from.
Allows shelley to mocklackoflove and respect Ozy has. Ridicule his excessive hubris that has resulted in this infatuation and love with barbaric (tyrannical) power.
Iambic Pentameter: uses as a motif of control, demonstrate frightful regularity of the oppression by those in power over citizen