What is the subject and theme of "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley? Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
a Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
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Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"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."
O A.
The subject is death and the theme is that death overpowers all.
© B.
The subject is art and IS the theme is that art can immortalize beauty.
© C. The subject is human vanity and the theme iS that human vanity is destroyed by time.
© D.
The subject is immortality and the theme iS that human vanity is not subject to time and natur