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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 …

…s 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**