"Ozymandias"

The arrogant words of a once powerful man remain next to the broken headless representation of himself . His own words, placed next to ruins that was once his kingdom, almost seem to mock the King "My name is Ozymandis, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair". Robins uses imagery to describe a scene that was once a view that would intimadate common people or intruders, but now exists almost as an ironic depiction of his arrogance, "Halfsunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command". The vastness of the dessert is symbollic of the great expanse of time since his time of reign. The poem is a statement that no matter how great and mighty something might be, only time is constant. The poem concludes "Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.", leaving the reader with a vision of the vast flatness of time and a sense of empiness and loneliness.