How Does Shelley Use Alliteration In Ozymandias

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In the poem “Ozymandias” Percy B. Shelley utilizes alliteration to reveal a focus that although power and the fame that comes with the exhilaration of creation may seem everlasting it will soon fade over time. Shelley uses alliteration in the occasion of describing the statue being “half sunk” and also included on the statue “a shattered visage lies,whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command” lie upon the statue in the midst of the desert. Shelley 's use of alliteration in his poem draws attention to the letter and sound of “S” which reveal a tone of eeriness to set the mood of strange depictions upon the statue of the statues belongings.