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How do Ozymandias and the Prelude compare?

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Although both poets present nature as the ultimate power, in 'The Prelude', Wordsworth presents nature's power as terrifying, whereas, in 'Ozymandias', Shelley presents power of nature as destructive. After telling us the story of Ramesses II, the narrator says 'Nothing besides remains.
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