Ozymandias

The speaker of this poem is some guy that heard of a visage that are in the desert. He hears about this visage through some traveler from an antique land. The situation in this poem is that the traveler told the speaker of some visage in the desert and the statue is of some, "great" king that lived a long time ago. The pedestal says, "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" So he's basically saying that he is so great and so amazing and that he will be remembered forever and just to give up hope. The irony about that though is that his great kingdom crashes and now all there is is a statue of him and he has nothing.