Question

Bring out the irony in the poem Ozymandias...

Answer 1

In the poem Ozymandias
On the statue it was written that Ozymandias was King of Kings and "ye mighty despair" but his statue was lying with his broken face lying on the sands

Answer 2

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In Percy Bysshe Shelleys poem Ozymandias, there is an overriding irony presented to show the difference between the sculptor and the sculpture.

The poem’s irony revolves around Ozymandias himself. The great irony here was having the pharaoh narrate the poem, boasting of all his greatness and power, yet all that he has ‘established’ now lies in ruins, crumbling through time, slowly joining the surrounding sands.

Ozymandias was so full of authority, even though there was nothing left of what he boasts. His kingdom and his glory now lie in the sands with only stone slabs.