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,......

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Title: Interpretation Of ``Ozymandias``
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