Ozymandias

• The poet takes the form of a sonnet of a nameless speaker allowing the poet to create an opportunity, communicate their thoughts
• The speaker “met a traveller from an antique land “this is important as we are getting in for thirdhand which added significance of a roller obsessed with immortalising himself and physical form
• King of kings-biblical illusion, positioning himself as God
• Nature has one over man
• The statue was now a ‘colossal wreck’