Remember, Shelley was part of the Romantic movement which tended to champion nature (although that is a bit simplistic). The poem seems to contain one central idea, that of the transience of power in the face of nature. It contains a famous image of the pedestal of Ozymandias (an Egyptian pharaoh), the legs of which are the only remains. The lone and level sands stretch far away.Ī lot of people will recognise this poem. Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frownĪnd wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
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