Ozymandias'

The theme that nothing remains in the short poem, Ozymandias' is apparent throughout quite a few lines. In line 10, Ozymandias exclaims "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings, Look on my woks, ye mighty, and despair!" It implies that Ozymandias thought that he was the ruler and that he would reign forever, but from the beginning to the end of the poem, all that he had has perished. Throughout the poem are words like sunk and decay and wreck which imply to me that Ozymandias has become but a mere thought, and that his work has perished with time. In the last two lines of the poem, "Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away." It paints a picture in my mind that everything that Ozymandias built, has become nothing but a wreckage in the sand. Nothing left of the ruler but a pile of rubble. The one thing to outlast his work were merely his words. "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings!" but he had nothing left to show for it but a mass of decay.