Poetry Comparison

In both Ozymandias and (ponder, darling these busted statues), the overwhelmingly dominance of time is a major theme; however, both authors demonstrate the power of time in different ways.  In Ozymandias, Shelley uses irony to express that nothing lasts forever: "Nothing besides remains." (12).  Shelley indicates that time ultimately crumbles everything, even the king of kings.  The tone is almost mocking because the king truly believed that he would be eternalized; however, Shelley proves that time is the dominating force over all of mankind through his bombastic language..  In (ponder, darling these busted statues), e.e. cummings essentially parodies the forces of time. While he makes a similar point to the one made in Ozymandias, his poetry lacks bombastic language that would generally be included in a poem regarding time.