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ozymandias
Title: ozymandias
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 664 | Pages: 2.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
ozymandias
Due March 8, 2001
Analysis of Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote the 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
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impossible. Like the poem said, the king’s work became nothing, only shattered statue
with legs and head left, lying in the desert. Shelley put a clear image in all our minds
when he talked about the power and desires of this mighty king. All Ozymandias wanted
was immortality, which everyone in this world, even today, would die for. Who knows,
maybe that was the key to the king’s impractical dream.
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