View What Message Is Conveyed Through The Poem Ozymandias Pictures. The poem uses the statue of arrogant ozymandias (whose sculptor so well those passions read) with the words inscribed look on my works, ye mighty, and despair through this poem a very important message is conveyed which explains the ultimate truth of human lives that nothing is important. The major theme behind ozymandias is that all power is temporary, no matter how prideful or tyrannical a ruler is.
His poem, ozymandias, was inspired by seeing a friend of his, horace smith, write a poem on a similar topic.
Identify and rewrite the lines from the poem spoken by the narrator, the traveler and ozymandias Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. You can find that there is a list of all poems in book iii here and the notes and questions answers and the explanation is given for each and every poem. In the poem, ozymandias was so proud of his own power and so bent on asserting it that he commissioned a great sculpture of himself glorifying his own authority.