Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote this poem
"Ozymandias" to express to us that possessions
do not mean immortality. He used very strong
imagery and irony to get his point across
throughout the poem. In drawing these vivid and
ironic pictures in our minds, Shelley was trying to
explain that no one lives forever, and nor do their
possessions.
Shelley expresses this poem’s moral through a
vivid and ironic picture. A shattered stone statue
with only the legs and head remaining, standing
in the desert, the face is proud and arrogant,
"Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions
read"(lines, 4-6). On the pedestal of the statue,
there are these words, ‘"My name is
Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works,
ye Mighty, and despair!’"(Lines, 10-11).
However, all that surrounds the statue is a desert.
This poem is written to express to us that
possessions don’t mean immortality, the king
who seemed to think that his kingdom would
remain under his statue’s haughty gaze forever,
ironically teaches us this through his epitaph.
"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and
despair!"(Line, 11) becomes good advice, though
in an opposite meaning than the king intended,
for it comes to mean that despite all the power
and might one acquires in the course of their life,
material possessions will not last forever
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