ozymandias

• context: Shelley was a romantic poet and wrote a lot about power of nature
• structure: poem is a sonnet but shows the broken nature of the statue and ozymandias' rule
• "i met a traveller from an antique land" -introducing someone they met. 'antique' suggests the event happened a long time ago but the memory is still in existencwe
• "the lone and level sands stretch far away" - 'stretch' suggests that nature will outlast man and humanity. our place on this earth is only temporary and no match for our natural environment and time