Ozymandias

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the reign of the greatest king on earth.One immediate image is found in the second line, "trunkless legs.". One good comparison may be when the author equates the passions of the statue's frown, sneer, and wrinkled lip to the "lifeless things" remaining in the "desart." Another is when Shelley compares the "Works" of with "Nothing beside remains."
shows the reader that two things will mark the earth forever. First: the awesome power of mother nature is constant, everlasting and subject to no human works. Second: a mans actions are kept in the hearts of those he touches for eternity.
Nature's commanding presence in the poem is expressed only twice,
"The lone and level sands stretch far away . ( L14)"
but in those two instances the reader knows that her cycles of bounty, this is symbolic of the time before Ozymandias' fall continue regardless of the presence humans. The poem gives a certain finality to nature. It lends the earth an independent and invincible power. Even though ...

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