Ozymandias

Ozymandias Ozymandias 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 poem, ozymandias, forever, statue, shelley, possessions, king, about, sculpture, works, words, power, nothing, mighty, look, kingdom, immortality, great, ye, work, way, vivid, very, through, shattered, pedestal, one, mean, lines, last, king’s, ironic, desert, my, visage, trying