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

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,

who seemed to think that his kingdom would

sculpture. Shelley wrote, " Nothing beside

statue hoping his power would be immortality.

Some common words found in the essay are:
, vivid ironic, ye mighty, statue legs head, ‘my name ozymandias, forever nor possessions, name ozymandias king, name ozymandias, vivid ironic picture, nor possessions, sneer cold, ‘my name, legs head, statue legs, forever nor, ironic picture,
Approximate Word count = 542
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)