Poem Of Thirty-Nine And Ozymandias Comparison

In contrast, ‘Ozymandias’ a sonnet, describes how an ancient king was once a powerful leader but today his work has faded by the destructive power of history which implies the insignificance of human beings over a passage of time. Whereas in ‘Poem of Thirty-Nine’ the daughter continues her life through the lessons her father taught her. ‘Ozymandias’ is about a meeting with the poet and a “traveller” who describes the story of King Ozymandias’s “shattered” statue. The traveller explains how the statue was once a symbol of his power but is now forgotten and abandoned in “the desert”. The head of the statue is separated from the body and buried in the sand symbolizing that human power is a temporary possession and time is the one that takes