What really happens after you die? Some people see death as the end of life, and others see it as a new beginning. In Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias”, death is perceived as the final part of a person’s life whereas in John Donne’s “[Death, be Not Proud]”, death is not seen as a finishing point. The concept of death is present in both poems, although each author has a different view on the outcome of it.
When Shelley says, “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone, stand in the desert” (lines 2-3), he is talking about the buried statue of the previous king, Ozymandias. Imagery is used with the statue by the poet talking about how big and prominent the statue used to be. Now it is broken and buried in the sand, showing that all the power he