Summary of poem Ozymandias.

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In this sonnet, Shelley illustrates the vanity of human greatness and the failure of all
attempts to immortalise human achievements. The speaker recalls having met a traveller
from an ancient land, who told him a story about the ruins of a statue in the desert of his
native land. A lifelike statue of the king was made to immortalise him. But now the statue lies
broken and disfigured in the desert. The traveller tells the poet that two vast legs of stone
stand without the upper body and beside this lies the broken and crumbled stone-head,
which is half sunk in the sand. The statue has a bitter and cruel expression on its face which
indicates that the sculptor had understood the passion of his subject really well. It was
obvious that the statue was of a man who sneered with contempt for those who were weaker
than himself, yet fed his people because of something in his heart.
On the pedestal near the face, the traveller reads an inscription in which the king
Ozymandias tells everybody who happen to pass by that how awesome a king he is. But there
is no other evidence of his awesomeness in the vicinity of this giant broken statue. There is
only sand as far as an eye could see.

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