The summary relates an experience of a traveler from Egypt. This traveler saw two huge and trunkless legs of a statue in

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The summary relates an experience of a traveler from Egypt. This traveler saw two huge and trunkless legs of a statue in the desert. Near they lay, half buried, the broken face of the statue. On this face can still be seen the expression of haughtiness and a sense of authority which had skillfully been depicted by the sculptor, sand which survives the sculptor. On the pedestal the following words were inscribed; "my name is ozymandias and I am a great king. Look at the great deeds which I have accomplished and which nobody can equal". Round the broken statue stretched a vast desert.
In the form this statement is sonnet. The sonnet-form was not really suited to Shelley's genius because the sonnet restraints and restrictions under which Shelley much have felt impatient. For this reason, Shelley wrote very few sonnets, and failed to achieve distinction in them. This poem, for instance does not rigidly obey the accepted conventions of the form of the sonnet. The rhyme-scheme does not follow any of the recog nized patterns and some of the rhymes are faulty.
But though not flawless, it is the best of the few sonnets that Shel ley wrote.It has armed high praise from critics and is considered a most powerful, imaginative suggestive poem. Its moral goes home to our hearts with force and vigor; human glory ad pomp is not everlasting. Hammers of decay quickly follow the hammers of construction. Time words havoc with buildings and monuments. But the moral is not directly states. The poet only presents a picture to our minds and we have our selves to dare the moral. What is the main theme of the given statement.