Question

Tell me the difference between the poem...... not Marbles nor the gilded monuments and ozymandias.... because they both having the same Central idea that is the time is the Supreme Power.. but how can differentiate them..?? Answer me with full explanation and please no spam

Answer 1

in the poem, nor marble....:

   the poet tells us that statues and monuments will get destroyed eventually by time or war .

but destruction cannot wash away the memory of his friend because it's in his poem which dwells in lover's eyes.

in ozymandias:

it shows the pride of King Ozymandias who is so confident that his work is better than anybody else's and that nothing can possibly destroy it. however, only the ruins of a scupture is left with none of his work around it. It shows that the statue/sculpture couldnt withstand time. the expression on the face of the sculpture shows a sneer of cold command(shows the king's hostility)