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In Ozymandias and Spring and Fall how do Shelley and Hopkins explore the passage of Time?
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In Ozymandias and Spring and Fall how do Shelley and Hopkins explore the passage of Time? Ozymandias and Spring and Fall are two poems, which at first glance have little in common. Ozymandias is a traveller's tale, a story that reminds the reader of something they have read before, perhaps in a children's book, long ago. This is shown in the first line - "I met a traveller from an antique land". It sounds like the beginning of a well-known story and the reader can tell instantly that it will be about the past by the use of the word "antique". The description of the place is a description of somewhere foreign, unfamiliar in everyday life as the word "desert" is used, yet in the reader's mind it was once a place of happiness, somewhere they could escape to as a child when they read books. However Shelley has taken it...
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