Ozymandias
The poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley is about a traveller telling the speaker about a statue in the desert. ... The Traveller goes on to say that on the pedestal of the statue, it is written, “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! ... Ozymandias is a sonnet, a fourteen lined poem metered in iambic pentameter. ... "Ozymandias" has two voices. ... This leaves the reader with an impression that Ozymandias was a stern ruler and had no trouble giving orders. ... These same passions are said by the traveller to “survive” (1720, 7) the “hand that mocked them,” (1720, 8) which would be the sculptor, as well as the “heart that fed”(1720, 8) them, which is Ozymandias. ... This expression seems to not make sense; Ozymandias’ heart “fed” (1720, 8) these passions? ... But I think the sense is more that Ozymandias’ heart fed on the passions. When you look at it like this, Ozymandias’ heart becomes a killer and the passions are its prey. ... The passions don’t seem to be suggested to be bad, but Ozymandias’ feeding on these passions of greed, conceit and arrogance resulted in evil, the same evil we see on the statue’s face.