Imortality
...ture must image me when Iam goone."(Hardy) Sir Namless uses his statue to attepmt to cary on his mightiness. The same is also true for Ozymandias who leaves the message on his pedestal "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair."(Shelley, 747) While one uses stone and the others use of sand to imortalize themselves they both fall to decay and what once there to be remembered is now forgotten. While each man tries to obatin imortality through sculptures, the both attempt to strecth there memory with these objects. To shape a figure stretching seven-odd feet (For he was tall) in alabastar stone."(Hardy) Sir Nameless uses to stone to stretch imortality. While stone is strong it can not hold up through the test of time. Ozymandias strecthes sand to to attempt to obtain his imortality. "The lone and level sands strech far away."(Shelley,747) While the sand may stretch far away, his memory will not stretch as far as the sand will. While each man the dream of imortality they both fall victim to irony in the defacement of their great sculptures. Sir Nameless statue was forgotten. Due to the decay his staue was laid on the floor for the school children to kick around. "Best fitted for the floor. there it was placed..."(Hardy) The great irony is that Sir Nameless hated children and now it was children that were defacing his sculptur...