Ozymandias blog

In Ozymandias, Shelly expresses the significance that time has on everything in life.  Through the diction that Shelly employs, she is expressing the toll time take on life and the fear of how time leads to an eventual platonic perception of everything.  So, what Shelly is saying, especially by alluding to the slab of rock with the writing on it, is that time eventually will eliminate any accomplishment and make everything meaningless.  Shelly's choice of diction and punctuation, or lack of punctuation, coincide with the length of eternal time.  The sentences almost run-on, just like time.  Next, "Nothing besides remain" is the only straight forward line in the whole poem, and the only one that expresses Shelly's main point in a straight forward and brief sentence.