Answer with reference to specific quotes and language effects.
Ozymandias is a poem written around 1820 about a man from an “…antique land” who has seen the remnants of a giant statue of a great king, Ozymandias, and aside from being a story with some truth in it there is also a hidden message about ambition. The “…colossal wreck…” is of a once great yet arrogant king who mocks the mighty and possibly even the supernatural. To be a king means that you have to be ambitious to begin with. You must manage absolutely everything around you and that in a way makes you the beating heart of your empire whilst keeping the people happy and expanding beyond the previous achievements of the past. Ozymandias is the king of kings and late on in the poem the line “The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.” it tells the reader that although he was indeed powerful and let everyone around him know that especially his subjects he still took the time to rule them. He also apparently built a great empire to show all the extent of his power. Then the volta appears in the play and then the mood switches from the vast statue to the surroundings where his empire should be. However there is only boundless and bare dunes which show that no matter how ambitious you are in the moment and how much you achieve with that ambition it all eventually turns to dust.