Question

The last 5 lines of "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley reads: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" / Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away." The crumbling statue, "decay," "colossal wreck," "boundless and bare /…lone and level sands" all communicate thematic ideas of __________.

Answer 1

I think it is despair

Answer 2

"Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thematic Ideas:

1. The fleeting or fragility of human power,

2. The effects of time on human endeavours, and

3. Death as the enabling equalizer of all human beings and efforts.

Step-by-step explanation:

Ozymandias is an 1818 short poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It narrates the impression a traveller acquired while considering "a ruined statue of Ozymandias (the Greek name for Ramses II of Egypt, who reigned in the 13th century BCE), according to brittanica.com.

Shelley received the inspiration to write the poem "Ozymandias" due to archaeological discoveries made in Egypt following Napoleon's defeat of Egypt in 1798. The poem is a reminder to the power that be that power is transient. The powerful today may not be so tomorrow. Only God remains yesteryears, today, and forever.