Question

how does the poem portary the theme of transcience (impermanence)of human life and power? ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Overall, the message of Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" is in the idea that power is temporary, even that of great rulers who may believe their power to be immortal.  

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer: The portray is based on Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias.

Explanation:

• First, we'll identify powerful structural devices in the poem.
• Shelley utilizes a 14-line iambic pentameter sonnet with regular rhyme.
• What's the power connection? Shelley's use of a regular rhyme scheme and lack of a typical sonnet form may illustrate how Ozymandias' strength has diminished with time.
• Then we identify Shelley's power-related literary strategies.
• Shelley uses cacophonous alliteration to show Ozymandias power: 'cold command' and 'King of Kings' Ozymandias claimed he was as omnipotent as God, thus he called himself "King of Kings."
• Shelley utilizes sarcasm to show how Ozymandias power has waned, reducing him to "trunkless stone legs."
• This is further reinforced by the semantic area of destruction, "shattered visage, lifeless, huge Ruin" (capitalizing Wreck functions as a transferred epithet Ozymandias' identity has changed from regal to wreck).
• "Look on my Works, ye Mighty and despair! Nothing beside remains" also employs juxtaposition.
• Round off "Shelley shows the transience of Ozymandias power by reducing his creations to 'Nothing,'' a pronoun that emphasizes how forgotten they are.
• Shelley shows the power of nature over man with cyclical natural imagery.
• The poem begins in a 'antique land' and 'desert' and ends with the alliterative line 'the lone and level sands stretch far away.
• Shelley, a romantic poet, highlights how fragile human power is as it can easily be 'shattered' by time and nature.

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