Combinations of sounds such as вЂњland/stand, trunkless/sunk, and stone/loneвЂќ (Shelley 500) convey a powerful but tightly controlled mood. The rhyme scheme and form focus more on the connotative and structural significance. This first sentence not only implies the previous inference, but opens the interest of a broad audience who might have felt a connection with a observing view. His persona throughout the stanzas is one of observation and reflection, as if an outsider to the subject is recalling the words of someone familiar with the king Ozymandias himself, вЂњI met a traveler from an antique land/ Who saidвЂ¦вЂќ (Shelley 500).

To give a brief insight into the author himself, Shelly once described himself as open to new poetical abstractions, and that concept is shown in the organization and word choice conveying the theme, along with various tones. Some important literary elements included are the poetвЂ™s perception and the unusual rhyme scheme developed throughout the poem. When discussing a poem as powerful as вЂњOzymandiasвЂќ, one must first look at basic components that come together to create the complex. In ShellyвЂ™s poem, inspired by the pretentions of this king of antiquity, the author shows the ultimate morality of personal glory by natureвЂ™s means through many subtle, yet powerful, literary devices. It was Ramses II who had declared, in words less rhythmical than Shelley made them, вЂњShould any man seek to know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works,вЂќ which comes from words translated from an ancient bust of the king. The colossal bust of King Ramses II arrived at the British Museum in 1821, where it remains, and is said to be the subject of Percy ShellyвЂ™s poem вЂњOzymandiasвЂќ.

The beginning of the 1800вЂ™s in England saw a spark of interest in all things Egyptian from discovering new monuments to an influence on poetic style.

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