In an organized, five paragraph essay, compare and contrast the message of "Ozymandias" with the message of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.
What does each sonnet say about the lasting power of art? Which sonnet do you agree with, and why?
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SONNET 18
ReplyDeleteShall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Ozymandias
ReplyDeleteI 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,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd 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.
The two poems are both romantic peaces written by two romantic poets describing something or someone and their respect or fear of nature is apparent in their writings. The two poems go in tangents when one describes beauty as eternal and everlasting along with nature (Sonnet 18), while the other describes nature as harsh and wrathful and wares down anything that may defy it (Ozmandias) . The first poem is more allegorical in describing a girls beauty and personifying it to nature. The poet describes her and her beauty to be time less and never ending as long as the world still spins. The second poem talks about a powerful king who's power will exceed him even in death but as it is read the only thing that is left is sand.
ReplyDeleteSonnet 18 is how a poet describes his feeling for his mistress and how much he loves her and how much he feels about her. She is more warm hearted and lovely than the whole season of summer, she shines brighter than the heavens, and even though she may get old her beauty is eternal. Every one knows that nothing is eternal but he be lives that no matter what happens or any circumstance her beauty will be set in stone. As long as she is remembered for how beautiful she was she her beauty will be timeless. Even in death, men's lust for her will give her beauty life.
Ozmandias is written from the point of view of a traveler who talks to another about what his as found in the desert. The old man discovered a monolithic statue of a great king from Egypt, this statue reads "My name is Ozmandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!". This king was assuming that this statue would stand erect in his kingdom forever surrounded by more architectully significant works of art, but to his surprise it isent. All that surrounds that statue is sand, his kingdom was destroyed and turned to ash. The thesis of this poem is that no matter how powerful you may be currently, once you kick the bucket time will wither away all you've done and all you are. All we are is dust in the wind.
The two poems touch on how great nature is whether its beauty or its ability to destroy all we have and own. Nature can bring you warmth and love or it can wither and erode even the greatest mountains, because sand were once great rocks. They both agree in the lasting power of art in the girls beauty and in the stones ability to stand the test of time, for the time being that is.
As you can see even though these two authors hold nature in high regard and its lasting beauty or its ending actions. The first describes the beauty of a woman as eternal even though literally he knows she will not look the way she dose forever but he may feel the way he dose for her forever or until he dies. Author two takes the persona of a traveler observing the paradox of the king quote on perseverance compared to it current state. I feel more logical and literal when thinking of tangeble things because i know what happens when time passes. But when im in love with another person i can feel certain emotions that make me think of forever. Depends on how you feel when your asked the question, what about forever.
In the poem Ozymandias Percy Shelly talks about a statue of a king (Ramses). The king felt he was all powerful and full of pride. The king .the author thinks about how the king and his kingdom has passed away. Even though he thought his glory days would never end, they in fact did, which shows how in the end nature(death) will take over and it’s no way to beat it or get around it. The poem talks about how each tyrannical leader thinks his reign shall forever be remember but just like the body the legacy will be taken over by nature and put in the ground. The author knows the e statue will soon be gone like the king, soon apart of nature.
ReplyDeleteIn Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare talks about his love for poetry and a women. He says how nature will affect a person’s life like old age or death but how this women will last forever through his poetry. He believes it won’t fade away or be forgotten. Shakespeare says how humans can be taken over by nature but not his poetry. He thinks his art or art in general is immortal. As long as people talk about it the poems will live.
Each Sonnet talks about how art will last longer than humans. Percy Shelly fells that art will one day are part of nature like humans, forgotten and in the ground. Percy’s sonnet showed how all that was left of a king’s legacy was a statue, a piece of art, and not the human it was based on. Shakespeare felt that art is so powerful because he says how the art will last forever, it can’t die like humans, death cant creep on a drawing like it can a human. This shows how powerful art is, I can create a sculpture or a painting, die the next year but my painting will still exist leaving a memory or a story to others in the next generation.
I agree with the two romantic poets, Shakespeare and Percy. But I agree with Percy Shelly a little more. When art is created it is not a human so it cannot age, get gray hair or die. Art cannot be killed or die. But eventually it may be burned up or deteriorate then to become a part of the earth. Even inanimate objects can’t avoid natures beautiful wrath. Art may last longer than humans but will go back to the earth like the humans. When the world ends there will be no humans to read these poems, to look at the sculptures one day the art will be in the past just like the humans that created it .
Both romantic artists agree with how nature is in control over all, and even though we may not want things to occur like old age or the end of our reign in a kingdom, it’s going to happen anyway, because nature will always take over. You can’t take the glory to the grave and out of everything you do it will soon be surpassed by nature.
In the poem Ozymandias Percy Shelly talks about a statue of a king (Ramses). The king felt he was all powerful and full of pride. The king .the author thinks about how the king and his kingdom has passed away. Even though he thought his glory days would never end, they in fact did, which shows how in the end nature(death) will take over and it’s no way to beat it or get around it. The poem talks about how each tyrannical leader thinks his reign shall forever be remember but just like the body the legacy will be taken over by nature and put in the ground. The author knows the e statue will soon be gone like the king, soon apart of nature.
ReplyDeleteIn Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare talks about his love for poetry and a women. He says how nature will affect a person’s life like old age or death but how this women will last forever through his poetry. He believes it won’t fade away or be forgotten. Shakespeare says how humans can be taken over by nature but not his poetry. He thinks his art or art in general is immortal. As long as people talk about it the poems will live.
Each Sonnet talks about how art will last longer than humans. Percy Shelly fells that art will one day are part of nature like humans, forgotten and in the ground. Percy’s sonnet showed how all that was left of a king’s legacy was a statue, a piece of art, and not the human it was based on. Shakespeare felt that art is so powerful because he says how the art will last forever, it can’t die like humans, death cant creep on a drawing like it can a human. This shows how powerful art is, I can create a sculpture or a painting, die the next year but my painting will still exist leaving a memory or a story to others in the next generation.
I agree with the two romantic poets, Shakespeare and Percy. But I agree with Percy Shelly a little more. When art is created it is not a human so it cannot age, get gray hair or die. Art cannot be killed or die. But eventually it may be burned up or deteriorate then to become a part of the earth. Even inanimate objects can’t avoid natures beautiful wrath. Art may last longer than humans but will go back to the earth like the humans. When the world ends there will be no humans to read these poems, to look at the sculptures one day the art will be in the past just like the humans that created it .
Both romantic artists agree with how nature is in control over all, and even though we may not want things to occur like old age or the end of our reign in a kingdom, it’s going to happen anyway, because nature will always take over. You can’t take the glory to the grave and out of everything you do it will soon be surpassed by nature.
The two poems, “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelly and Sonnet 18, by William Shakespeare are both well written by two very famous writers in which they do share some similar themes and characteristics in between the lines of their poems. Ozymandias speaks of a famous statue who was a strong powerful leader, King Ramses as noticed by the narrator and really thinking about whom he was and why his statue turned out to be as broken into bits as it is. In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, it is about a young, beautiful woman in whom the narrator has taken notice upon and how it her looks won’t last forever. Although about two different subjects, the distinction shared between the two can easily be seen.
ReplyDeleteThe theme shared between the two is the concept of the nature of decaying. In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare writes about a young woman who appears to be beautiful and describes her almost to be at her peak years of beauty, but talks about her beauty declining. This refers to the fact that she will not be like that forever and that she should take advantage of it before it is gone.
In Ozymandias, Shelly writes about King Ramses’s statue in a museum and imagines himself in the position of Ozymandias and ponders upon the idea in which he thought that if he was so powerful and was such a great ruler, why would his statue turn out, broken, as it is now. His kingdom was believed to be so powerful and strong, his beliefs were probably as strong as he thought his strength was in for his kingdom and would be around for a long time. As obvious as the statue, it did not last as long as he hoped.
In terms of art, it is manifested that the cliché saying of “Nothing last forever”, stands true to the beliefs of both writers. They both take two subjects such as beauty, as in Sonnet 18, and strength of an all-powerful ruler and how they collapse over time. They may seem peak in their years, but the true nature of all things, is how natural it is for everything to decay over time.
The sonnet in which I agree with is the concept of Ozymandias. As any powerful or absolute leader as King Ramses was, their strength is only temporary. This still stands true to today to many dictators and rulers such as the reign of Adolf Hitler, although he was powerful, there was an end to his practices as it became inhumane. Although not forgotten, several artifacts are kept and displayed in a museum and remembered just as King Ramses.
These two poems share the same concept of nature and beauty. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare shows that beauty coexists with nature. When there is nature in society, beauty exists as well. If nature is destroyed by humans, then they basically destroyed beauty in which they seek. In Ozymandias poem, nature becomes a very destructive characteristic by the author, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Percy Shelley wrote a poem about a statue that was in the deserts of Egypt. It was the ruler, Ozymandias also known as King Ramses, who was a powerful king who conquered whatever he sees in the desert.
ReplyDeleteSonnet 18 was about a beautiful woman who has a very loving husband. The poem describes the husband’s love for his wife. As the husband describes her, she was the most warm and kind hearted of the humanity and she outshines the sun which is the brightest of all bright things in the world. Even after she dies, her beauty is way beyond eternity. Eternal life doesn’t exist in our world but Shakespeare believes that whatever kind of situation there is, her beauty is inexpressible. Her beauty will be always remembered in their minds and hearts.
Ozymandias is about a traveler who found a precious statue in the middle of the desert of Egypt. There was something encrypted in the statue that says “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; Look around on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Ozymandias believe that this statue that he created would last for a very long time around many buildings built that can be seen where the statue stands. But unfortunately, after ages passed, all that the statue can see was sand and only sand. His whole kingdom was turned into dust and as time had passed, there was not a single building that he could be proud of.
The two poems show that nature can go both ways. Either it is beauty or destruction, nature will always be part of our lives whether we like it or not. Nature can bring us brightness and calmness in life or it could bring devastation and sorrow in our lives. Both poems accept the fact that nature is eternal whether it is someone’s beautiful face or how the time passed by.
The two authors, William Shakespeare and Percy Bysshe Shelley, have a great expression about nature when it comes to eternal beauty or devastating ending. Sonnet 18 is about the nature of beauty of women. It lasts forever even though that the woman will age and soon die. In the eyes of her man, she will be the most beautiful woman in the world. Percy Shelley’s poem, Ozymandias, is about a traveler who saw a statue in the middle of the desert. The statue’s facial expression is full of determination in it. I mostly agree with Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem, Ozymandias. With the theme of having ultimate power, it will soon be gone with the kingdom they once rule. In today’s history, there are such rulers who still remembered by the people who have an impact to the people. Rulers such as Adolf Hitler in Germany and Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines. Even though they are not part of this world anymore, the impact they made in the countries they controlled will remain and be part of the history.
For these two poem on Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare and Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelly. It is basically telling both the about the nature within it and how it is a despicable to it too. It is mostly share the same concept in nature. Both of this poem in shows in part of nature how it can change and be very demeaning to them. It’s a powerful thing on how nature can be as itself to a perspective view on the people and how I can be seen by them.
ReplyDeleteFor sonnet 18 it is saying that everything beautiful eventually fades by chance or by nature’s inevitable changes. Coming back to the beloved, though, he argues that his or her summer won’t go away, nor will his or her beauty fade away. Moreover, death will never be able to take the beloved, since the beloved exists in eternal lines. The speaker concludes that as long as humans exist and can see, the poem he’s writing will live on, allowing the beloved to keep living as well. He is telling that how he is comparing the summer as if the summer was the nature in it to the loneliness of his betray wife.
And then for Ozymsndias basically Shelley was writing a poem that dealt with the transience of life and fame. He wanted to use the broken statue buried in a desert as a symbol of someone who had been known to the ancient world, who had ruled possibly the greatest part of it, and who now was long dead and whose accomplishments and cities were gone to sand. The same thoughts are expressed in the poem, where the poet uses a story as an allegory to show how even the greatest of kings are not remembered once they are gone.
Both of these poem shares the same meaning to this on how sonnet 18 says the fading of it and the Ozymsndias about the status on the ground buried in the desert and see it fading pictures away. It is showing how can nature can be a touching thing within them. Mostly it’s having the meaning how something you focus on can be gone away like the summer in sonnet 18 and Ozymsmdias the status seeing it lifeless in the ground and spare to see it. But into a main difference for it for the comparison for sonnet 18 of course it’s talking how it can change in the relationship if this woman and for the Ozymsmdias on this status. For the sonnet it showing how woman can be there for you and later have been gone in an instance and for the status it the meaning on how he has look at it seem as if this is a meaning to the main point of as he looks at it. The status with has disappear but part of it has been seem too been seen. How it lasting structure can be buried in but have a lasting look at it. The poem for it tells that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive the status which has been there for a long time period. For both of these poems I have to say that I have to agree with sonnet 18 because it is telling that yet summer it is too short for life as to say like in a relationship it can last for a sort of time.
To me I can’t seem to see the meaning power of the king divine in my perspective view. What I’m saying to both of these two poems that in nature it can be yet be peaceful or either devastating in a way. For it in any way both can seem to have a contrast or a comparison way in both in it. So to this it has an impacted in a society for like woman in this. William and Shelly talk on how the point of nature can be a way to see it very perspective way on viewing woman like society and how nature can be in a common sense for us to look at it.
For these two poem on Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare and Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelly. It is basically telling both the about the nature within it and how it is a despicable to it too. It is mostly share the same concept in nature. Both of this poem in shows in part of nature how it can change and be very demeaning to them. It’s a powerful thing on how nature can be as itself to a perspective view on the people and how I can be seen by them.
ReplyDeleteFor sonnet 18 it is saying that everything beautiful eventually fades by chance or by nature’s inevitable changes. Coming back to the beloved, though, he argues that his or her summer won’t go away, nor will his or her beauty fade away. Moreover, death will never be able to take the beloved, since the beloved exists in eternal lines. The speaker concludes that as long as humans exist and can see, the poem he’s writing will live on, allowing the beloved to keep living as well. He is telling that how he is comparing the summer as if the summer was the nature in it to the loneliness of his betray wife.
And then for Ozymsndias basically Shelley was writing a poem that dealt with the transience of life and fame. He wanted to use the broken statue buried in a desert as a symbol of someone who had been known to the ancient world, who had ruled possibly the greatest part of it, and who now was long dead and whose accomplishments and cities were gone to sand. The same thoughts are expressed in the poem, where the poet uses a story as an allegory to show how even the greatest of kings are not remembered once they are gone.
Both of these poem shares the same meaning to this on how sonnet 18 says the fading of it and the Ozymsndias about the status on the ground buried in the desert and see it fading pictures away. It is showing how can nature can be a touching thing within them. Mostly it’s having the meaning how something you focus on can be gone away like the summer in sonnet 18 and Ozymsmdias the status seeing it lifeless in the ground and spare to see it. But into a main difference for it for the comparison for sonnet 18 of course it’s talking how it can change in the relationship if this woman and for the Ozymsmdias on this status. For the sonnet it showing how woman can be there for you and later have been gone in an instance and for the status it the meaning on how he has look at it seem as if this is a meaning to the main point of as he looks at it. The status with has disappear but part of it has been seem too been seen. How it lasting structure can be buried in but have a lasting look at it. The poem for it tells that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive the status which has been there for a long time period. For both of these poems I have to say that I have to agree with sonnet 18 because it is telling that yet summer it is too short for life as to say like in a relationship it can last for a sort of time.
To me I can’t seem to see the meaning power of the king divine in my perspective view. What I’m saying to both of these two poems that in nature it can be yet be peaceful or either devastating in a way. For it in any way both can seem to have a contrast or a comparison way in both in it. So to this it has an impacted in a society for like woman in this. William and Shelly talk on how the point of nature can be a way to see it very perspective way on viewing woman like society and how nature can be in a common sense for us to look at it.
Please ignore the first one i posted up this is the real one.
Power and beauty are two of the things that most people in our world seek after. Still, even if one does achieve one or both during their lifetime, power and beauty are just ideas that will be diminished at the same time that the person ceases to exist. Just like possessions such as money, jewelry, and other materialistic property that someone acquires during their prime, power and beauty cannot be taken to the afterlife. Even so, although they may not be physically present anymore, evidence of their existence may be produced so that their legacy shall live on in the memories of those that they have left behind. This is exactly what William Shakespeare did in Sonnet 18 and what Percy Bysshe Shelley in “Ozymandias”.
ReplyDeleteIn his Sonnet 18, Shakespeare expresses his undying love to a person that is so beautiful that he or she may be compared to “a summer’s day”. Even so, the speaker says that his beloved is more stable because rough winds shake off the flowers in May and the sun is either too hot or hides behind the clouds which dims the surroundings. Then in lines 7-8 the speaker states that every beautiful thing eventually fades into nothing either because of an unfortunate event or by natural occurrence. Time is the natural enemy that no one can defeat but the speaker found his way around this obstacle¬¬ by writing about his beloved. According to the speaker, everything is temporary except his beloved. Sonnet 18 immortalizes the beloved’s beauty which will remain eternal as long as there are people in this earth and as long as the poem lives on for people to read.
Percy Shelley tackles the topic of power and control instead of beauty in his sonnet titled “Ozymandias”. The poem encapsulates a story of the narrator speaking to a traveler that has been to distant lands. The traveler gives an account of one of his journeys in a desert where there is an ancient statue in ruins. The statue is actually of the ancient ruler of Egypt Ramses II or “Ozymandias”. Even if it’s been damaged due to old age, any spectator can still make out the face of the statue. It has the look of a powerful commander which shows that the sculptor understood the ruler’s true character which is clever but benevolent to his subjects. The twist in this piece of poetry is that there is a caption underneath the statue that boasts about Ozymandia’s power over his vast kingdom but there is nothing but sand and ruins around the statue anymore. It is half-sunk in the ground and is partially destroyed which just shows that even the biggest of monuments and the largest of kingdoms do not last forever. Still, just the mere existence of the statue is a symbol of Ozymandias’ legacy.
Both sonnets center on the idea of time and its effect over such things like beauty and political power. Nothing is immortal when faced with time and the natural cycle of life. Unlike Shakespeare, Shelley did not create a solution to the ironical situation in “Ozymandias”. Instead, Shelley finished the poem with somewhat of a despairing tone by stating that the once powerful ruler has lost not only his life but also the empire that he once led. Also, Sonnet 18 is more like a personal memory compared to Ozymandias because Ozymandias is told by a speaker who was only told of the statue by a traveler from a far away land. The speaker of Ozymandias did not personally see the ruined statue and therefore Shelley further expands the regretful fate of the once great ruler.
I agree more with Shakespeare because poetry and literature can be easily reprinted but sculptures are more challenging to recreate. Once a statue is damaged it is hard to copy the exact look of it. As time goes by, people forget and they are forgotten as well. It is still inevitable for things to be forgotten especially when they are not present anymore. These sonnets declare that art is the best tool to remember history. Poetry can tell great stories from the past and monuments give us a visual of what the past looked like. Though people pass away, their legacy will be preserved in the form of art.
Both sonnets, Sonnet 18 and Ozymandias are two descriptive poems that obtain a forever lasting art. These poems have a significant subject that they refer to and mention their personalities and characteristics of the subject. Sonnet 18 refers to a special “someone” and compares how their beauty will live on forever like the poem while Ozymandias refers to a statue of Rameses the Great and how he was able to be worshiped for a period of time. These subjects represent both immortality and power to continue to live on for centuries; however Ozymandias doesn’t seem to provide the evidence and just relies on the believed history behind him.
ReplyDeleteSonnet 18 written by William Shakespeare begins with the comparison of his love to a hot summer day. He describes how a summer day is and later points out that this person is a forever lasting summer day and will continue to live beyond their lifetimes. He uses the poem itself as a symbol of how long the love and immortality will last. It has been nearly 400 years since the poem was written and it seems as if it were a poem that still has a modern message. The power that this poem possesses is timeless until the human race goes extinct.
Ozymandias begins with a traveler learning the history of the sands of Ancient Egypt. In the sands lied a partly destroyed statue of a former ruler, Ramses the Great. His story was told that he was a wicked ruler that contained a lot of power, but took care of his people as he remained in the throne. His statue that was built for him represents the immortality and power he received as king. Over time, this broken statue showed no indication of what it represented whatsoever.
In contrast to Sonnet 18, Ozymandias doesn’t maintain the forever lasting power as Sonnet 18 does. Ozymandias had a harder reputation to hold with its statue and history while Sonnet 18 shows that real art can be shown through its writing and not a proven object. It’s love and passion beat powerful reputation. Sonnet 18 has proven to be the more powerful and immortal poem even without the historic tyranny behind it. Ozymandias left its fame in the hands of the future of humanity while Sonnet 18 kept its fame incorruptible.
Both poems have a good meaning which everyone can learn from. Sonnet 18 shows that with passion and ability, a belief and thought could live forever. Ozymandias indicates that people don’t need to have an enormous statue built of them to prove their power and importance in life because it may not be as important in the future. To show real immortality, it is best to show it through something that is untouchable and uninterrupted. In the end, art will be shown through many ways that will live on forever.
Ozymandias talks about how someone has traveled to a place where ancient civilizations once existed. He wanted to use the broken statue buried in a desert as a symbol of someone who had been known to the ancient world. He wondered if he was so great and powerful why would his statue turn out broken. The traveler told the speaker a story about an old, fragmented statue in the middle of the desert. The statue is broken apart, but you can still make out the face of a person.
ReplyDeleteSonnet 18 mostly talks about him describing how everything which is beautiful eventually fades by chance or nature and he argues t hat his or her summer wont go away nor will his beuaty fade away. death will never be able to take the beloved, since the beloved exists in eternal lines. The speaker concludes that as long as humans exist and can see , the poem he's writing will live on, allowing the beloved to keep living as well.
I feel that both of these poems share the same concept of of beauty and nature. Both poems describe their love and share the same meanings. Its showing how nature can be a touching thing within them. Nature will always be part of our lives whether we like it or not. Nature can bring us brightness and calmness in life or it could bring devastation and sorrow in our lives.
Over all in contrast both these poems shares ideas with nature and love. And how things cant last forever. sonnet 18 talks more about beuaty with nature and when society meets with nature it the beauty comes out. but then Society usually destroys the nature. And in the Ozymandias poem nature is kinda destructive but cannot last.
I think I would have to agree more with Ozymandias poem because you cannot have strength forever and it is only temporary because you cannot rule something forever and you will eventually fall. Ozymandias. With the theme of having ultimate power, it will soon be gone with the kingdom they once rule. Just like most dictators they all eventually died or couldn't rule as long as they wanted to.
Sharissa Wright
ReplyDeleteThe poems Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare are both very famous poems in literature. In many ways the two poems are similar as far as their view of nature and mankind. Also they are different in point of view of their themes, meanings and message. By comparing and contrasting the two poems you would find out how two different poems can at the same time relate to one another.
The first difference between Ozymandias and Sonnet 18 is its story line, which is quite obvious. In the poem Ozymandias the speaker who is a traveler tells the story of an old statue in the desert to a person whom he bumped into. The statue was destroyed and its remains are still in the desert. The statue was a symbol of the mighty, yet wicked, ruler Ozymandias. The only remains let are his face and the pedestal that reads "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" In the poem Sonnet 18 is about Shakespeare comparing someone beauty to nature. How she meets nature’s personification. How even good things fade away, there will always be happiness within both parties. With different story lines there also an indication that both stories will have different themes.
The Second difference between Ozymandias and Sonnet 18 is there themes. In Ozymandias, the themes are based more on love, time, and literature and writing. Love is expressed throughout the poem in different forms of imagery and language. It shows the audience how the speaker expresses his love. Like all Shakespearean poems, Sonnet 18’s language through the text shows the speakers feelings about his beloved. Time is also an element of the poem because it is shown through seasons, fate, and mortality. The themes that put together to make the poem we know as Ozymandias is transience, Art and Culture and pride. Ozymandias is obsessed with transience which makes the irony of his statue being destroyed be expressed through a greater sense. The statue symbolized his absolute power that came to an end hence the destroyed statue. But this also shows the art and culture of the poem. Ozymandias, being the king of kings and all, is a person that thinks highly of himself. His pride was expressed in this poem by showing how he was power hungry. Even though the two poems express different themes they share one similar them.
The theme that Ozymandias and Sonnet 18 Share are Man and the natural world. Man and the natural world are expressed during the poems when the speaker of Sonnet 18 describes that he will eventually come across his own death. How even though he will be gone their love will stand strong. It is also expressed in Ozymandias is how nature can be precious and valuable but is also vicious and fight back. Not only mankind is mentioned in the two poems but also their views on nature. In both poems it tells the viewers about nature and its different personas.
Natures in both poems are seen as precious and vicious. From Sonnet 18 how natures beauty is shown in the speakers beloved and how the elements of the earth and be formed into a precious statue of Ozymandias. The constant battle between nature and mankind thorough the poem is proven that nature will always concur. Just like how nature is destroying the statue of Ozymandias and how it is constantly beating us up in our everyday lives. Nature will always be precious but Mother nature will always be the alpha male, above all things of this earth.
Percy Shelly’s “Ozymandias” and William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 both describes how the beauty of nature can never be taken over by death. They both firmly believe that nature resides in art and that is what makes them beautiful: Nature. In Ozymandias, the narrator gives off an imitating tone of how scary nature can be with its destructive powers. In Sonnet 18, it addresses to someone about how great their love it for that person.
ReplyDeleteIn the poem of Ozymandias, the traveler meets the great king of Ozymandias; he manifests to the traveler about how great he is as the king of kings thanks to the way how the sculptor created the statue. While the statue is fearsome, the traveler curiously wonders why it is destroyed by the sand. In contrast to Sonnet 18, this poem tells how nature fights back by taking back what created the fearsome statue in the first place, the rocks and stones.
In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, the narrator tells us about the natural beauty about this person; someone who is even greater than nature itself. He is saying that the best times of nature last too short and the worst times of nature seemed like it lasts forever; but this person he is describing will always be as great as the best times of nature because this piece of writing will live on and people will always know. The beauty in the writing will always be living because it will always be read.
Both Ozymandias and Sonnet 18 are in different tones, but the narrators focus on the same theme. Nature should not be neglected because it has its own good and bad parts. For example, a fire can bring warmth to people, but it can also take lives away in a forest fire; water can bring boats across rivers, but it can also drown lives. The narrators defend this by saying nature resides within their art.
Shakespeare tells us that the beauty in writings will never vanish because it can be written again as long as we remember the lines. Percy Shelly tells us that sculptures will be destroyed in some ways and taken back by nature. I agree with Percy Shelly because arts will not be destroyed physically; as long as another sculptor feels the same as the original creator, the same or similar art will be created again. The art itself is going through a rebirth, not destroyed by nature.
These two poems resemble each other by both talking about how art exists. Not exactly if they will live or die soon but that they recognize art in their own form of way. Both the speakers of their poems talk about something/someone and how they describe their findings so detailed. Ozymandias talks about how these findings of the statue and art could still live today. In Sonnet 18 Shakespeare talks about how his love for this women; and, thee art that she posses will forever live for eternity.
ReplyDeleteEven though they are similar these poems are very different from each other. While Ozymandias refers to art that has been found and brings a message to everyone has pretty much died with time. The art will live but the statue itself will not and just like everything else will eventually just die and fade with time. The poem comes off as if the statue was arrogant and will never last, such as everything else.
Sonnet 18 though has a different approach to art and beauty. He talks about how much he really truly loves this woman and how he will forever love his beauty. No matter what happens such as death, they will forever be together because of the words he wrote for her. Even if they are apart his love is so strong he doesn’t worry because he cares for her no matter what. Different from Ozymandias he refers to his love for her and the words he wrote will always live on. There is so way that this love will fade.
With the power of art it lives on. For Shelly he does believe that the passions that transcend off from the statue will live forever. But the existence of this beautiful statue looks arrogant and weak so it won’t live on forever. For Shakespeare it’s completely different then Shelly, he believes that his art that he wrote for his beloved will live on forever. That it will never be weak or nonexistent. Because of his love for this women that he knows his art will always live.
With reading how these two poets believe art lives, I agree with Shakespeare, because I believe that art will live forever. He made a point that because he wrote this for his beloved that it will always be known to her how much he loved her. He wrote this message onto something anyone could see it. Referring to art that is tangible it can live forever. We read about these poets today because their art is remembered and has not died or faded away. Because we still know of people from hundreds of years ago is a reason why I believe art will never fade. Also people who become artist always use inspiration from past artist. Which makes old artiest always remembered.
Mark San Juan
ReplyDeleteThe poems are quite similar in that they compare something or someone to nature to capture its true essence and being, which can be found in many Romantic works. The comparisons in Sonnet 18 are of one’s beauty, which is said to last forever; while the comparisons in Ozymandias are of an object that is deteriorated by nature. The connection can be found in their different, yet similar, perspectives of nature and how we are one with it.
In Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, the poet is expressing his adoration for his mistress by comparing her beauty to things in nature. His idea of her undying beauty is brought to life when he says, "And summer's lease hath all too short a date...". How can summer have "too short a date" if it continues in a never ending cycle? What Shakespeare meant by this was that the art of beauty was in a way "immortal".
In Ozymandias, a traveler tells of a statue of a man who was once a king and how nature has eroded it. Below the statue read, "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!". This king, Ozmandias, believed that this statue would last forever. He was quite arrogant to nature's power of destruction. In the traveler's story, the remains of the statue were slowly diminishing, all that once surrounded it was swallowed by the sands of time; which, undermined Ozymandias's claim of being the king of kings.
The poems both speak of nature's many personalities. They describe it's loving side, showing the beauty in everything we are surrounded by on Earth and it's dark-hearted side, showing how nature's effects are irrevocable and cannot be ultimately stopped. When broken down, we can see they both agree that art can live forever although it's resiliency is tested by time.
I agree with the second sonnet, Ozymandias, because I know that one day everything will have to come to an end. No matter how long something, or someone, will last throughout time, there will be a day where all memories of it, or them, will disappear from life. The many optimists will say that this is untrue, but the cold truth is that nature will take over, erasing all that has ever existed in life.
Sonnet 18 and Ozymandis both compare how time ties into nature. Sonnet 18 the author compares a lady through nature and throughout time she still have her beauty. In Ozymandias the king's power was compared to nature but throughout time his rule and power diminishes throughout time.
ReplyDeleteLasting power of art means that the art piece and picture can last for a century or probably more. Tieing into these poems each of these poems display a message that relates to lasting power but in a different way. Sonnet 18 a women's beauty is priceless and have powerful value to it. Ozymandias a man's power will never last forever but it will still have it's history of the power.
I agree with Ozymandias poem because it's true that you can have power at your prime and when you are alive but your power slowly diminishes when you are not present. Power has many value to it but will never last forever, there will always be someone else to claim or take over where you left off. Throughout time we cannot control your death it happens own its own.
The 2 poems take place in different times but has the same message. Time and power are almost the same but time will always be greater than power. The stories have different plots and settings. Ozymandias represents power while Sonnet 18 represents beauty.
In conclusion the poems represents a time in nature which are tied in with power and beauty. Somethings can last but others can dissappear in time. Time is a main factor towards nature. Your accomplishments will show throughout nature and will always be remembered in time.
Percy Bysshe Shelley and Shakespeare's poems are both very different, but yet so much alike. Ozymandias's poem talks about how power will soon decay and be forgotten. Shakespeare's poem talk about a beautiful young women will all these fantastic features who will also soon die. The theme of these two poems are that nothing lasts forever.
ReplyDeleteIn sonnet 18, Shakespeare explains how beauty cannot lasts forever. The stability of love and its power to immortalize it, is the theme of this poem. Shakespeare starts by the praise of his dear friend without ostentation, but he slowly builds the image of this women into that of a perfect being. He later then describes how things begin to fade and that death will soon over come this beautiful thing. He explains how you should not take advantage of things because nothing lasts forever. You should admire it while it lasts. He compares the girl to the season and how each season doesn't last forever and it changes, just like our lives.
In Ozymandias, Percy writes about a traveler who stumbles upon a huge statue which looks old and beat up. Later in the poem, he explains that Ozymandias was a great worrior and had a huge kingdom and empire. Looking at the statue and the sand, it was confusing because how can such a great empire fall? This ties into Shakespeare's sonnet 18's theme about how nothing can last forever.
Nature is also a similar factor in each poem. In sonnet 18, Shakespeare compares the seasons to her beauty, and how nature will soon take her away. Also, he compares her to the flowers during spring time. Even when her beauty might not be there, nature will. Nature will still change the seasons, and grow the flowers. In Ozymandias, the only thing left of his empire was the broken statue of himself. Nature covered the city with sand, and covered up what once was a great kingdom.
Each sonnet tells us about how art always be ever lasting. Even when art is ''ruined'' by others, it may be the most beautiful thing in the world. There is a deeper meaning behind art in every piece of artwork.
I agree with Shakespeare more because I believe that beauty cannot last forever. Power however can be pass on from generation to generation. Beauty can decay every year you get older. Once you die and your body rots away, you beauty is gone and you then just bond with the rest of the world and become part of nature.
Ozymandias and Sonnet 18 are both Romantic pieces so ofcourse they share simalarities.They both use nature and emotions in their context. And also both use time as a symbol.In Ozymandias the poet talks about the King Ramses statue survived over time but his power is diminished.In Sonnet 18 the poet talks about how this girl's beauty is timeless and will last forever.
ReplyDeleteIn the poem Ozymandias Percy Byshhe Shelley explains that even when you have greatest power like Ramses II did that you will die .Ozymandias was the "king of kings" but in the end nature kicks in and youre still human.in Ozymandias the poet uses sand as refrence of time even though the king didn't survive but his remberance remained in his statue . Basically Percy is saying man won't survive forever but his legacy will.
In the second poem Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare compares nature to the beauty of the woman he loves. He does this by comparing this woman to summer.he first explains how lovely and temperate she is then laer talks about how summer is nice but doesnt last too along.He says that just like summer .Then he talks about eternal summer will never fade so he's saying that that memory of how beautiful she was will never be forgotten.
I agree with Shakespeare sonnet on how beauty is just like summer and summers dont last too long.For example a model can beautiful now but in 50 years she probably wont be. But the memory of her beauty will last for decades even if she isnt alive.
The diffrences between the poems is not in the theme which is nothing lasts forver but in what their comparing that doesnt last forever. Ozymandias says how the power of a king willl not last forever while in sonnet 18 says that beauty doesnt last forever.In Ozymandias the poet uses sand of egpyt symbolize time while in sonnet 18 the poet uses summer as a symbol of time.
Both poems “Ozymandias” and Sonnet 18 are romantic works and they have similar ideas and ideas that contrast each other. In “Ozymandias” and Sonnet 18, they have a common theme of things not lasting forever and that eventually, nature will take over and end something’s existence. Although, in both poems, there is something that is talked about that supposedly will last forever. For “Ozymandias”, the king’s pride is ever lasting and in Sonnet 18, the person’s beauty is ever lasting. Also, nature plays a different role in each of the poems.
ReplyDeleteThe theme for both poems is that nothing can last forever. That’s true because with age, materials begin to deteriorate or weaken. No matter how strong something is, it will become weak with age and with the factor nature. For example, the earth is a solid element and fairly strong, but over time, water erodes the earth and turns it weak; therefore, the earth becomes broken down. Things cannot live on physically, but it is possible that they can exist through history with writing or memories.
There are things that are more abstract that can survive throughout history. For example, to this day, people continue to talk about Marilyn Monroe and how beautiful she was, which can be connected to sonnet 18. Another feeling that has lasted throughout history is what happened with the holocaust. That horrific event still causes emotional turmoil within people and everyone who is old enough to understand knows who Hitler is.
In Sonnet 18, nature is seen more as an active element. Winds shake flower buds that came in the spring and that the sun can be too hot, etc. In “Ozymandias”, the only element of nature is the sand that engulfs the statue. The sands could be a metaphor for the time. People are always talking about the sands of time and hourglasses are filled with sand. It just shows how time can erase things that happened in the past.
I agree more with “Ozymandias” because physical art can be kept and preserved for future generations to see. I feel like having something that you can see can create a larger impact on how someone feels about something rather than having only a story about something. An example is the painting of Mona Lisa. It’s always talked about and people aren’t really sure who that person is. Yet, it’s consistently talked about and most people have heard of Mona Lisa.
William shake sphere’s sonnet 18 and Percy Bysshe Shelly Ozymandias are two different poems that yet share the same themes and concepts. They both express the idea that materialistic things and reputation and other similar things are just temporary and therefore over the time will always get ameliorated over time no matter what situation , whether by nature or by society as it goes through changes. Also they both share the characteristic that these people remember their ideas and feelings with objects, whether a piece of art or a piece of writing. But at the same time these poems are different because although they share a theme together, they both find it different and view the power of beauty and nature different and how it will be remembered.
ReplyDeleteSonnet 18 is about a guy who is in love with a woman’s physical appearance. He views her as “a summers day” and that day is everlasting and will never go away. This poem describes her beauty as something that he will always remember and have her in his mind and heart eternally. He will have her in her mind no matter witch situation he goes through in life and even after he passes away. This poem describes that beauty even though its temporary, can always be remembered in one way or another and others can know about his feelings toward that special someone by writing it down in paper. Even after that special someone passes away.
On the other hand Ozymandias is about a traveler who find the statue of Ozymandias also known as Ramses the second in the desert. Looking at the statue the traveler starts to reflect on how a person as important as the king can have his statue of him on the floor. Then after thinking after a few minutes he comes up with the conclusion that nature will always kick in and beat the most powerful “king of kings”. But then again no matter what that statue has been through it will always get remembered.
The piece of literature that reflects more of what this society is more like is sonnet 18. In today’s society everything is remembered through pictures. Its true that beauty doesn’t last forever, but know that cameras exist, you can remember the beauty of the moment you are living through with a picture. So that 50 years from now you can still remember that moment in life. And even after that your future generations and other people can feel and see the moment that made you happiest in life.
Both of these poems share the same characteristics that they both use a symbol to symbolize time. Sonnet 18 uses the summer day as a reference to time. While in the other hand Ozymandias used the sand as a reference to time. Although they use similar characteristics they are different in the sense that one poem reflects that a physical appearance doesn’t last forever, while the other it says that a persons power doesn’t last forever. But even though these two poets both reflect on different things, they still send out a similar message that makes us reflect on ideas that may have or haven’t come up through our minds.
Both, Ozymandias and Sonnet 18, contain a well known title with their forever lasting image. Having similarities by including something that does not want to be left behind, relate to both poems. By leaving the image they leave in the readers head shows the difference between both poems.
ReplyDeleteSonnet 18 which was written by William Shakespeare begins to describe a summer day, comparing it to a person whom could be as beautiful as it is. Love is affected to the writer and everything that he sees is beautiful, he compares her to it. He sees her in every aspect of beauty the world carries. Love is forever lasting and universal; love, the idea and feeling of love would ever die.
As for the poem of Ozymandias, it talks about history. A traveler seems to have caught himself next to a historic statue. A statue of Ozymandias, a ruler of all rulers, he claimed to be. His statues represented the great power Ozymandias contained as a ruler. History will never be forgotten, only through knowledge. Statues and areas that carry history could be erased by time, but if time was taken to induce history it will never be forgotten. So as time went by the remains of the statue does not show the people the great power Ozymandias carried while he ruled.
Containing love and power with history are on two whole different pages, different steps to become a forever lasting product. One has to do with a person and the other with a reputation. While the other goes through steps to make history between two individuals, the other goes through a different process that wouldn’t be able to be seen or experienced again. Sonnet 18 is proven to become a more powerful because love doesn’t need to have a history, it could start with a new beginning. As for Ozymandias, what happened to him, his history can’t ever be changed.
Both poems contain experiences we all can gather, and use in the future, but, if knowledge of history can input in the ability to love then it can cause an impact. In the end love always conquers any situation.
"Ozymandias" and "Sonnet 18" are two beautiful poems written by Percy Shelley and William Shakespeare, respectively, that intertwine upon similar concepts and characteristics pertaining the lasting powers of beauty, nature, and art. However, several elements in each poem contribute to the differing messages that these poems convey.
ReplyDelete"Ozymandias" is a poem that focuses on the countenance of the Ozymandias statue in Egypt and its connection to the sculpted ruler's dying legacy as a powerful king in his peak years. This account of the story behind the statue is told by a traveler who had stumbled upon it in Egypt. The traveler wonders how such a momentous ruler as Ozymandias was of a vast kingdom did not translate the magnitude of his "legendary" power to his broken statue. This poem conveys a message that despite how powerful and almighty the leaders throughout centuries have been painted in society, their fountain of vigor and power will not last forever; in other words, they'll eventually die down and regress as they become older and weaker.
"Sonnet 18" is a poem written by the poetic Shakespeare that talks about the alluring beauty of such a divine woman in her peak years. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker describes the woman as lovely and even-tempered to demonstrate how beautiful she really is in his eyes. However, midway through the poem, the speaker chastises the summer season for its negative outcome based on influences from nature itself. Lastly, he describes how although beauty eventually digresses as years go by, the woman's beauty, metaphorically, will never cease to exist. Therefore, the message of this poem is that although nature will end physical beauty in its reign, the art of beauty itself will live on forever.
These two poems are very similar in that they both pertain to the theme that in a way, nothing (physically) lasts forever. For instance, in "Ozymandias", the statue won't last forever as it breaks away as it becomes more ancient. Additionally, ruling kingdoms and legacies will eventually cease to exist. In "Sonnet 18," the woman's illustrious beauty won't last forever, since she'll eventually grow to develop wrinkles and sag with her aging years. These poems both reflect upon the concept that the art of nature will live on forever, though. Although Ozymandias's legacy will wilt away, its memory and historic impact on society will live on forever. Additionally, the beloved nature of the woman's beauty will live on forever.
I agree with Shelley's poem more because its theme relates more to our past and current history of the ages of political and tyrannical leaders across the world. I think that the poem hits the nail on the head when it subtly implies that although these memories and accounts of the great and horrible acts that these powerful leaders have enacted upon us will forever be imprinted in our writings, teachings, childhood, and minds, physically speaking, we won't have to endure their wrath any longer because they'll eventually step down from their high and mighty positions.
For sonnet 18 the speaker begins by asking wether he should compare "thee", which is him or her, to a summer day. He argues that his or her summer or happy beautiful years that they won't go away, nor will his or her beauty fade away. Death will never be able to take the beloved because the beloved exists in eternal lines this refers to poetry. The speaker says that as long as humans exist and can see poetry the poem he's writing will live on, allowing the beloved to keep living as well.
ReplyDeleteFor Ozymandias the speaker describes a meeting with someone who has traveled to a place where ancient civilizations once existed. On the pedestal near the face the traveler read an inscription in which the ruler tells anyone who might happen to pass by that they had to look around a see how awsome Ozymandias was. but they have found no evidence of his awsomness in the giant broken statue. there was only alot of sand.
Both sonnets are written by Romantic poets and they both have a meaning of comparing beauty and nature. Ozymondias is mostly all just describing the beauty of the statue but the traveler makes a point that Ozymandias's passion still survives. So basically it's how Ozymondias was so into himself and how awsome he was.
On the other hand, Sonnet 18 he's comparing his love to a summer's day, he tries real hard to distinguish them, ultimately arguing that the beloved unlike nature, will be saved by the force and permanence of his poetry. The contrast doesn't really work because it seems much more eternal than the beloved. If beign written about preserves immortality, then the summer ought to be immortal because the speaker is writing it aswell.
I agree with Shakespeare because I believe that the beauty of someone or something cannot last forever. But power can last forever because it can be passed on to different generations. Beauty as the older you get it starts going away and at the end all that beauty from your young years is gone. Once someone dies when they are in that coffin their body rots and then they become part of nature.
Both the poems Ozymandias and Sonnet 18 almost have the same meaning and are both very famous when it comes to English. Both of the poems can be compared by the author because both of the authors are very famous in their respected time. Both of the poem go are similar when Sonnet 18 describes beauty as everlasting when it comes to nature and Ozymandias describes nature as being harsh and pretty messed up and hard to overcome. Ozymandias makes quite a point about all the great works of Ozymandias have disappeared from the face of the earth, save for his broken statue bearing some of his words
ReplyDeleteSonnet 18 compares the youth to a summer’s day. Its kind of like if Shakespeare is crushing on someone that is underage but he really doesn’t care because he will do anything to be with him or her. He also seems to point out that the love of that special somebody is more valuable than gold and he doesn’t care because all he wants to do is be with his crush and doesn’t care what people think of him. Unlike many of the comments here, I believe that Shakespeare is talking about a underage girl rather than just any girl because when he writes When in eternal lines to time thou growest: I belive he means that love has no boundaries. That is just me.
In Ozymandias, the message or theme of the poem of "Ozymandias" is that man is insignificant and his efforts are vain when compared to the forces of time and nature. Shelly expertly uses diction in the poem to portray important ideas. By encompassing time and nature into a theme Shelley brings a divine sense to the poem. It seems to be more about the love of nature than the love of a human being. It feels like this poem is about being selfish and worrying about yourself and don’t worry about what other people do because its survival to the fittest. That is how I see this poem being.
Both of the poems can be compared because in both Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare and Ozymandias by Shelley nature is a big topic but even though nature is differently described into both poems. It somehow has the same meaning because it involves beauty and uses nature to sort of compare them whether is inner beauty or outer beauty.
The poem that I agree with is Ozymandias beecause that is the poem that kind of says what I believe and it was the one I understood the most. I also agree with it because It's about how someone can be great in life but often fade into obscurity over time. Ozymandias was "King of Kings"; now he's just a "colossal wreck" surrounded by a scene "boundless and bare". Meaning don’t be cocky, you should do your job and be well loved and you wont have to worry about anything bad happening against you.
Ozymandias and Sonnet 18 are both Romantic pieces so ofcourse they share simalarities.They both use nature and emotions in their context. And also both use time as a symbol.In Ozymandias the poet talks about the King Ramses statue survived over time but his power is diminished.In Sonnet 18 the poet talks about how this girl's beauty is timeless and will last forever.
ReplyDeleteIn the poem Ozymandias Percy Byshhe Shelley explains that even when you have greatest power like Ramses II did that you will die .Ozymandias was the "king of kings" but in the end nature kicks in and youre still human.in Ozymandias the poet uses sand as refrence of time even though the king didn't survive but his remberance remained in his statue . Basically Percy is saying man won't survive forever but his legacy will.
In the second poem Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare compares nature to the beauty of the woman he loves. He does this by comparing this woman to summer.he first explains how lovely and temperate she is then laer talks about how summer is nice but doesnt last too along.He says that just like summer .Then he talks about eternal summer will never fade so he's saying that that memory of how beautiful she was will never be forgotten.
I agree with Shakespeare sonnet on how beauty is just like summer and summers dont last too long.For example a model can beautiful now but in 50 years she probably wont be. But the memory of her beauty will last for decades even if she isnt alive.
The diffrences between the poems is not in the theme which is nothing lasts forver but in what their comparing that doesnt last forever. Ozymandias says how the power of a king willl not last forever while in sonnet 18 says that beauty doesnt last forever.In Ozymandias the poet uses sand of egpyt symbolize time while in sonnet 18 the poet uses summer as a symbol of time.
Both poems are Romantic pieces of literature written by Romanticists who shared similar themes within their poems. They both talk about how love or the beauty of art is embodied within a physical object. Sonnet 18 refers to a lover of the writer while Ozymandias seems like it is referring to a giant statue of a once great ruler. It seems like they are both trying to portray that power or love can be put into objects to live on forever.
ReplyDeleteIn the poem Ozymandias, it describes a man who is travelling the desert in which a great kingdom once existed. You can tell that the speaker is talking about ancient Egypt because of the title and the setting being in a desert as well. The traveller sees the vestiges of a statue that represented power but is now left to rubbles because of nature. This is in contrast with Sonnet 18 because Shakespeare’s poem talks more about how his love will be forever embodied in that poem.
In Sonnet 18, the narrator is describing the natural beauty of a lover. He compares her to the complex yet simple wonders of nature. In contrast to Ozymandias, Shakespeare was trying to say that the woman’s beauty will be forever alive because it will be read in the poem. He is aware that even nature cannot destroy her beauty because it is now written in word.
Although Ozymandias and Sonnet 18 have varied tones and outlooks on what art is, essentially, they are still aiming at the similar themes. This is that nature has a dual personality because it has it’s destructive and beautiful sides. Both poems are simply representations of each of nature’s sides and how it can be so destructive yet so beautiful.
Percy Shelly says that sculptures that once represented a significant meaning will one day be destroyed by nature. Shakespeare is saying that as long as it is put into the written word, any kind of meaning will be kept forever as long as it is read. I agree more with Shakespeare because I believe that events in history, people, or feelings about people can be easily put into words and be kept forever because it is constantly read.
Sonnet 18 and Ozymandias are poems written by exceptional romantic writers, William Shakespeare and Percey Bysshe Shelley. Each author has their own message they want the reader to leave knowing. Sonnet 18 was published in 1609 whereas Ozymandias was published two centuries later in 1818 which may explain differing views in the poems. Although they have different subjects the themes of the poems have overlapping concepts of how nature is greater than any material and human existence. They also capture the idea that the greatness and beauty can be concealed from natural aging through the use of artwork, such as poetry and sculpture. Even though both works present valuable points and lessons, in my opinion I believe that Ozymandias message is much more credible in society today.
ReplyDeleteSonnet 18 revolves around a beautiful being that is being compared to seasons in nature. This being, according to the speaker, is even more “lovely” and “temperate” than a summer’s day. A pivotal message in this poem is that in theory, everything in the world, no matter how beautiful, eventually fades away with time. “And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d” (Lines 7-8). But the subject doesn’t fade away because it is preserved forever in the poem. “But thy eternal summer shall not fade” (Lines 13-14)
Differing from Sonnet 18, Ozymandias has a historical subject of the statue of King Ramses I of Egypt. The poem describes the encounter between the speaker and a “traveler from an antique land”. The traveler has the main input in the poem, by describing the “colossal” yet dismantled figure of the once great, Ozymandias. (lines 2-4) “two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them on the sand half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies”. The traveler notes the ability of the sculptor to capture the “passions” of the ruler in the face with a “wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command” (line 5) Here we can see that a essential theme that art is immortal. Contrasting this theme, another key point in Ozymandias is concept of transience. Nothing can last forever, because power and fame will fade away with passing time. “Nothing beside remains; round the decay of that colossal wreck” (lines 12-13)
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ReplyDeleteI agree with the theme of Ozymandias because it revolves around the idea that time is greater than any human thing alive or dead. Although Sonnet 18 has a similar message, it seems to idealistic. The sonnet says that the beauty will “never” fade. I believe that Ozymandias is more realistic in that, although King Ramses I was still remembered, his power not entirely preserved in the artwork. The statue was left abandoned and dismantled, buried in the sand. Unfortunately most great humans and kingdoms will eventually cease to exist and only remains will be left behind.
The works of Shakespeare and Shelley share the idea that greatness and beauty can live on through art work, even if the subject has passed away long ago. This can be seen in Sonnet 18 in lines 12-14 “When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this and this gives life to thee” The eternal lines represent Shakespeare’s poem capturing her beauty, and as long as people can read this poem then she can live on in people’s memory. Even though the being that is described in this poem is no longer alive the memory of this being is brought back each time the poem is read. Ozymandias also embraces the idea that a skilled artist can capture history and perpetuate through artwork. “Tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things, the hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed” (lines 6-8). The sculptor had the ability to “read” the “passions” of the king and translate it onto the “lifeless things” (the stone he carved on). The statue epitomizes the king and if people were able to notice the statue and look past its aged and rugged features than they will realize that Ozymandias was once a mighty ruler of Egypt. Nature will eventually take over and everything will age, decay and eventually disappear, but one can prevent the total disappearance through art work.
“Ozymandias” by Percy Shelly and Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare, were written by two famous poets in whom the two poems contain very similar themes and meanings behind the poems. The poem, “Ozymandias” talks about an old statue, King Ramses that once was very powerful, wicked, but at the same time caring leader that takes cares of his people. While, Sonnet 18 describes a beautiful woman that the poet sees and amazed by her beauty and admired by everyone.
ReplyDeleteIn the poem, “Ozymandias” talks about how a traveler tells the poet the story of the old, broken statue. The old statue that lays there, big and tall even though its fallen into many pieces, was once a great leader of Egypt that the ruler was long passed away and all that remains from it is the statue. Percy Shelly is telling the reader that even though you are powerful, does not mean that you will for eternity it fades away slowly but all that remains is your legacy that you build.
Sonnet 18, talks about the beauty of a lover that he met. William Shakespeare compares the lover’s beauty and her genuine with summer, how it’s lovely and at the same time it does not last very long, like the lover’s beauty. The lover’s beauty will fade away because she’s going to be old later on. William Shakespeare compare the lover’s beauty of getting old with winter, how it’s a long period of time and it will never fade like when you’re aging even though you have the most beautiful face.
The poem, Ozymandias and the Sonnet 18 have very similar themes of their poem that they wrote. The similar themes that both poem share is, that no matter how much power you have or how beautiful you are it will never last forever because nothing lasts forever, it will be taken over by nature sooner or later when the time comes.
I agree with the poem, “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelly because it’s true that nothing last forever, even power itself. No matter how much power you obtain or for how long you have obtained that certain power or position, it will fade later on and nothing can be done. The theme of Ozymandias still hold true today, because there are many great and powerful rulers out there in the world but their power has faded as years pass by but their name and accomplishments have stayed behind. An example is Hitler, Kim Il-sung, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and etc.
Jennifer Huezo:
ReplyDeleteIn both poems the concept of time is talked about. In Ozymandias Percy speaks of a man who has found a statue that has been broken down and left forgotten in a desert. The statue is of a Pharaoh that used to be very powerful. In Shakespeare’s sonnet he talks about a woman’s inner and outer beauty. He describes her features and how no matter what happens her inner beauty will never change. The tone of Ozymandias is more sad and gloomy because it talks about something forgotten and lost. In Shakespeare’s sonnet is more hopeful and happy about the beauty of a woman.
In Ozymandias it talks about a man who was a pharaoh. He was very powerful and known by everyone. He had this huge statue made so that everyone could see how great he was. The statue was huge and incredible. But once he died no one really cared about him anymore. People moved on and the statue was left to nature. And nature took its course and slowly broke down the statue. And now that is left is the vestiges of this once great Pharaoh and his statue. As time passes so do we. We live our life and then we die. And with our lives go our memory too. We are remembered for a while, but eventually we are forgotten. Of course some of us are remembered, but not many. So that makes you think, you may be a hotshot now and you may feel like the greatest thing out there, but how long will that fame and glory last? Not as much as you think I’m sure.
And to contrast this, in Shakespeare’s sonnet he talks about eternal inner beauty. He describes this woman who is beautiful. But he also says that her inner beauty outshines her outer beauty. Her looks will one day fade, but who she is inside will never parish. Many people now a days care more about looks and forget what’s really important, what’s on the inside. You may not be the best looking person but if you have a great personality it makes you look that much more beautiful.
I would have to agree with Ozymandias’ poem because its true nothing is forever. That’s why you should try and live your life to the fullest, and do things to be remembered by in a positive way. You may not be remembered by all or forever, but you will be remembered by those close to you, and you want to be remembered in a good way, not as that guy/girl that no one could stand. Be humble, but yet confident; never over cocky and nor a pushover. Some of us are talented in some ways, but no one is better than anyone else. Once your gone, nothing guarantees you will be remembered.
And since life is about change, this is why I would have to disagree with Shakespeare. Nothing lasts forever. Certain things in life change us and mold us. You can be the sweetest person in the world, but if life hits you hard enough that can change who you are. I have personally seen people change completely through out the time I’ve known them. And I haven’t been alive for that long, so this proves peoples inner self changes too. So this is why I disagree with Shakespeare to a certain extent and agree with Ozymandias.