“Gray’s ‘Elegy’ and Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’ share ideas and poetic methods but reflect, in certain respects, the different times at which they were written.”

... "Gray's 'Elegy' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' share ideas and poetic methods but reflect, in certain respects, the different times at which they were written." These two poems were written by two different poets at two different times. Ozymandias was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley. He was a Romantic and lived from 1792-1822. At the centre of the Romantic movement was that humans had greater faculties than they had reason. The Romantic era was about imagination and emotion. This poem gives three main points: 1) Vast landscape- this gives us the chance to imagine, as many people have never seen the desert where this poem is set. 2) Status that the poem gives to the artist- in this case it is the sculptor. The poem makes the sculptor look very skilled Shelley writes: "The hand that mocked them..." This quotation shows that Shelley believes that the sculptor was mocking the king. 3) Sense

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