The theme of nature being all powerful
compared to mankind and time is also
greater and more powerful than man will
ever be.
Context
Shelley disliked monarchies and used
that to and the French revolution to
influence his poem.
Form
Sonnet with a Volta at line 9 like a Petrarchan
society but does not follow a regular rhyming
scheme. Also uses Iambic Pentameter but is often
disrupted.
Structure
Bulids up an image by turning focus and ends
by focusing on the enormous desert showing
the insignificance of the statue of the King
lowering his status.
Irony
There is nothing left of the King but a
broken down statue symbolising that
he is slowly being forgotten by
everyone showing that he was not a
great as he believed.
Feelings and Attitudes.
Pride, Arrogance and Power of the
King being destroyed by nature and
the Romantics belief that nature is all
powerful.