Question

Ozymandias irrational approach to immortalize hinself by getting a statue carved out show hisshort sightedness
What is menaing of shortaightedness in above lines

Answer 1

short sightedness here means dat he could not see the coming time and could therefore not realize dat how worst condition of his statue would be and how wars would affect it

Answer 2

Here shortsightedness means the way Ozymandias look things . He was just an arrogant ruler who wanted to get fame but never deed anything . His narrow thinking and nature led to his pitiful death