... perspective of him when referring to the statues appearance, "a wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command". From this one can imagine a very conceited, arrogant man, commanding his people and building this great vast statue hoping his power would be his ticket to immortality. The "sculptor" is in fact the public or people who he reigned over. There are three words throughout the poem that are all similar, "trunkless...lifeless...boundless". They all describe an almost half life. A statue is not renown for having no trunk and it is not looked upon as a "lifeless thing" but of one that is remembered for something outstanding in life. The words are all found following or are followed by examples of punctuation allowing the reader to dwell upon the end of the reign of "Ozymandias". Refering to the decay as ironic is because Ozymandias was someone so immense that "nothing beside remains", ...

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