Ozymandias

Percy Shelly's Ozymandias deals with the idea of time. Time is never mentioned in the poem but words such as "lifeless", "survive", "remains", "decay", all add to the imagery of the concept of carpe denim. "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains." The speaker, through a quote, is demonstrating how a kingdom once existed that no longer exist, and implies that the kingdom failed to live up to what it could of. Both poems acknowledge the importance of time, or at least imply it, and it it understood that we must live in the moment.