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Ozymandias
This sonnet is written to express to the speaker that possessions don't mean immortality - ironically, the king who seemed to think that his kingdom would remain under his statue's egotistical gaze forever teaches us this through his epitaph. "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despa ....
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.... beside remains."
Ozymandias 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 po ....
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