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Compare and contrast the different ways that Shakespeare and Shelley's sonnets deal with the themes of transience and immortality.

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Have a little read: ... Pre-20th Century Poetry Coursework Compare and contrast the different ways that Shakespeare and Shelley's sonnets deal with the themes of transience and immortality. The two sonnets I am comparing, Sonnet LX by Williams Shakespeare, and Ozymandias, by Percy Shelley. I am going to compare the way both deal with the themes of transience and immortality through the sonnet form, the arguments and ideas expressed and the way the writers use imagery, language and tone to make their point. Ozymandias, by Shelley, is a traveller's story of an old king who believed his empire would live on to forever yet nothing remains except some ruins of his statue. I feel that Shelley is trying to express that only nature can remain immortal, nothing else. I feel that he also trying to convey that possessions are not immortality. He uses strong imagery and irony to portray this. The statue, which is described as

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