In three pages these 2 poems and their artwork descriptions are analyzed. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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the analysis of a poem, and what may account for the fact that most people avoid poetry like the plague, is that there are often a myriad of messages in
the context and complexities of one small poem. Thus, it can be said, that words have power and it can be argued that the power is concentrated to a fine
focus in the art of the poem. In Percy Shelleys work, for example, on the surface there is the retelling of a traveler to Egypt who visited the ruins of
an ancient tomb, the tomb of Ozymandias. If one reads only for the surface narration and descriptive passages, perhaps that is all right. However, the message of the piece is
to be derived from the sestet which reads: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away"(Shelley 10).
This passage shows the haughty grandeur of a past age and the ego and power of the Pharaohs who ordered them built. In the end, though, the arrogance of
human rulers answers to the sands of time. The message: Power is temporary. Nature is forever. This is a common theme among Romantic poets. Most Romantics clamored for a
return to the basics, to nature and to the uncontrived ways in which man expresses himself. The imagination, it can be said, was allowed to drift as it would. Most
romantics quickly latched on to the ways of the peasants and the rural folk whose art forms, music and stories had remained largely unchanged during the classical period of history.