![]() The temples, palaces and whatever else might have been there all disappeared, leaving “nothing” but two legs and a head. Nothing beside remains: round the decay, Of that colossal wreck,” shows that not only is most of the statue gone, but there isn’t anything else around. It shows that even the powerful king, Ozimandias, is not an exception from destruction caused by the influence of time. This scene describes the frailty of human life by contrasting Ozymandias’ past power to his ruined statue. Ozymandias is to be pitied, if not despised, rather than held in respect and fear: The broken-down tomb is set in a vast wasteland of sand, telling that all tyrants eventually end up in the only kind of kingdom they deserve, a barren desert. The bragging words carved into the stone pedestal can still be read: “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! However, all that surrounds the statue is the desert. ![]() ” The head and face of Ozymandias is still recognizable, but it is “shattered,” and, though his “sneer of cold command” continues, it is obvious that he no longer commands anyone or anything. “Half sunk, A shattered visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command. Two vast and trunkless legs of stone,” show a broken down statue with only legs remaining. In the sonnet, a ruined statue of Ozymandias in the Egyptian barren desert is illustrated. Some suggest that the sonnet form has been used to mirror Ozymandias’ egotistical love of himself.The first eight lines (octave) the statue is described in its different parts to shows its deterioration over time. The poem explains that no one can live forever. The poem is a sonnet and is written in iambic pentameter. In the sonnet “Ozymandias” time triumphs over power. The final couplet offers a punch at the end. The first three quatrains have steady, predictable alternating rhymes. ![]() The standard Shakespearean sonnet uses an ABAB-CDCD-EFEF-GG rhyme scheme. In conclusion, Shakespeare is no fool, for his success over time with his true love. Shelley employs a unique scheme that disorients readers looking for familiar patterns of rhyme. But we know this means that what he has written is true. In the couplet, the speaker says if his statements can be proved to be wrong, he must never have written a word, and no man can ever have been in love. Love is an unchanging light that shines on storms without being shaken. ” This means love can’t be destroyed by a powerful storm and it is the guiding star to lost ships. In the second quatrain it says “That lookes on tempests and is never shaken It is the star to every wandering barke. Love is not under time’s power, though time has the power to destroy rosy lips and cheeks and make one look older, but love can last forever. The poet personifies time and explains that time can’t make a fool out of love. In the third quatrain it also says, “Lov’s not Time’s foole, though rosey lips and cheeks within his bending sickles compasses come. ” That means love never changes even though time passes. In the third quatrain it says, “Love alters not with his breefe houres and weekes. “Sonnet 116” is saying that true love can last forever. These themes are developed by the figurative language in each poem. In “Sonnet 116” love triumphs over time, while in “Ozymandias” time triumphs over power. “ sonnet 116″ and “Ozymandias” are two sonnets which illustrate themes of love and power.
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