Ozymandias Poem Analysis

Title: Ozymandias was a pharaoh that reigned during 1279-1213 BCE and his statue was about 57 feet tall. The site of where the statute used to be is nothing but remains of a once mighty yet broken king that he once was

Paraphrase: the sculptor who made the statue captured the king as he saw him to be. He was distressed unhappy and a cold person that thought of himself to be a powerful king but left nothing but a broken and shattered memory which explains why his stature is also destroyed and is blending in with the rest desert.

Connotation: " Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair." This could be meant in a mocking way that the pharaoh found himself to be this strong and powerful ruler but inside was hurt and broken.

Attitude: the author has a mocking and reflecting attitude towards this once great pharaoh.

Shift: the shift occurs when the author says "the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed" because then the authors mood and attitude shifts.

Title Revisited: it's just the name of the pharaoh was once mighty but broken and the author has some sort of connection to him in what I see as a negative way.

Theme: All people will fall