What Is The Mood Of The Poem Ozymandias?

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The painting by Hubert Robert symbolizes a sense of grandeur as one looks at the pyramids that is drawn so huge in proportion that it vanishes midway. This could be the painter's way of expressing how powerful the entities were, representing grandeur in contrast to the little figures that were going towards it. Like the great king and his slaves. On the other hand is a poem by the title ' Ozymandias ' by an English poet, Percy Bysshe Shelly is just another depiction of Egypt, painted with words. The poem makes the reader instantly get into a conversation between the poet and a traveller. She uses the word ' ancient' and ‘desert' to describe the land, which hints us that its none other than Egypt, one of the most significant places on earth.

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