Ozymandias End

The poem “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley has the theme that all things truly do come to an end. The imagery in the poem gives the sense that even someone as powerful as this ruler of long ago was, his reign had ended. The only thing left of his realm is his crushed sculpture scattered and half buried in the vast desert in which “lone and level sands stretch far away.”(14) Ozymandias’ facial expressions on his decapitated head from the sculpture reveals that he was a very harsh ruler “a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command.”(5) He thought of himself as a king that was great and even brags by the inscriptions in the remains of the statue’s base that he is “Ozymadias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”(10) Even though this ruler was indeed a great and powerful king his reign over a kingdom had truely come to an end.