Comparrasion_of_Ozmandiaze_and_the_Ruin

Comparrasion of Ozmandiaze and the Ruin Man’s Creation Cannot Last Forever. In about 450 B.C., the city of Olympia -- where the first Olympic games were held in 776 B.C. -- built a temple to honor the god Zeus. Many considered the Doric-style temple too simple, so a lavish 40-foot statue of Zeus was commissioned for the inside. Wealthy Greeks decided to move the statue to a palace in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey). Their effort prolonged its life, as fire later devastated the Olympia temple. However, the new location couldn't keep Zeus eternally safe: a severe fire destroyed the statue in A.D. 462. All that remains in Olympia are the temple's fallen columns and the foundation of the building. It is peculiar that the amazing creations of man cannot last forever; the same idea can be observed by comparing the setting, plot and irony in the poems “The Ruin” and “Ozymandias.” By examining the setting of both poems, one can perceive the idea that man-made inventions cannot last forever. The setting of “The Ruin” is in an old Roman city, where “the wielders & wrights” once built a huge city intending it to last forever, but now all that remains are “Broken blocks…” ozymandias, forever, last, ruin, cannot, statue, power, poems, creations, setting, remains, plot, kingdom, idea, time, irony, city, theme, roman, powerful, man’s, man-made, even, built, zeus, world, wierds, thought, temple, rulers, one, once, olympia, now, nature’s, mighty, man, huge, greatest, comparing, both, between, amazing, works, two, same, ruined, powers, object, nothing