Ozymandias

Personal response:

I think he is describing a statue of a king or a leader, located in a desert.

Translation:

I met a traveler from a old land. Who said: two vast and bodiless legs of stone. Stand in the dessert… near them, on the sand, half sunk, a shattered face lies

, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the base of the statue these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the debris
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Alliteration, metaphor,

Paragraph:

Percy Shelley displays a key theme in his poem ‘Ozymandias’ of ambition.