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Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias is one of the most celebrated sonnets in English literature. The poem examines the temporary nature of political power, the arrogance of rulers, the destructive force of time and the contrast between human ambition and the permanence of nature. Through the image of a ruined statue standing in an empty desert, Shelley demonstrates that even the greatest rulers and empires are eventually reduced to fragments.The poem is remarkable for the economy with which it c...