I think my most vivd mental image of war's horror is a picture of a child with a bomb attached to his waist, the timer ticking away. The impressions I've had from seeing image of war from films, picktures, and others is killing, mindless killing of whoever is considered the "enemy". A veteran once told me that everything around you is disaposable and the only two things you have in mind is kill and not being killed.
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29. Essay
Time continues on no matter what happens or who falls within it. The poem of Ozymandias was about the impermance of all things and the relentless march of time. The poem recognises how inevitable it is for everything to fall behind time, how time is more powerful than people or things.
An example of this is when the narrator was describing the sculpted face of Ozymandias. He described the face as half sunk and shattered. I think this tells the readers that even great King Ozymandias became nothing more than dusty ruins and forgotten memories. It's almost as though the King never existed at all.
Another example from the poem of the theme of time is the image of acres of sand that stretches far and wide. I found this when I read, "...The lone and the level of sand stretches far away" at the end of the poem. The image of sand reminds me of how sand is merely rock that has been eroded away, just like how everything will be eroded away in the path of time.
In conclusion, I believe the core theme of the poem "Ozymandias" is the how nothing can outlast time and even when there is nothing left, time will continue to march on.
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