Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley Through the poem, the poet wants to convey a deep message that nothing remains permanent in this world, everything gets reduced to dust with the passage of time. So it would be a futile attempt to immortalise oneself by any means no matter how powerful one is. Here, the poet says that he meets a traveller who tells him that he has been to a land with deep historical background. The traveller, then, describes the the things he saw there. He says that two large legs without a body are there in the desert. Here the poet comprehends that it is useless to boast of the power one possesses, as everything is transient in this world. Near them a shattered or broken face, half sunk, lies in the desert. The shattered or broken face of the King reflects an anger of expression; and the wrinkled lip shows that he was filled with pride during his time. He further says that he always looked down on others; and that he was also merciless, cruel, and un...
