Ozymandias

Ozymandias is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelly. The theme of this poem is that nothing lasts. It starts off telling you about an antique land, apparently the kingdom before it didn't last. Then there is a statue that is some what burried in the sand. Parts of it are exposed. Those parts are battered and broke. "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Looks on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" (10,11) is written on the pedestal of the statue, which is funny because nothing is left of the land. They only thing that has lasted of that land is that broken down statue. The rest of it is just bare sand.