Comparing the poems Tissue and Ozymandias
Similarities Analysis of both poems
*Both about power. -Both shows the idea of power. It also shows how nature has power over man-
made items. " see how easily they fall away on a sigh"- From the poem Tissue
*Bother written in the first person. representing a metaphor of paper to emphasis how a man-made building is
weak and useless compared to the wind. In Ozymandias, it states "half sunk, a
*Both powerful object shattered visage lies" emphasising how the desert is vast and survives longer
than the broken statue.
*Humans cant effect the damaging effects of time.
Both poems show how nothing lasts forever. In Tissues, it says "rivers make
*Nature can take away anything. roads" the poet wants to show how nothing stays the same. It shows how a
river could be destroyed and turned into something else showing that
*Nothing lasts forever. something could be destroyed. In Ozymandias, it says " Two vast and truckless
legs of stone" Where is the rest of the body? What happened to the arms? This
quotation shows how the statue has been rotting away and now only two
trunkless legs of the stone stand. Proves nothing last forever.
Similarities Analysis of both poems
*Both about power. -Both shows the idea of power. It also shows how nature has power over man-
made items. " see how easily they fall away on a sigh"- From the poem Tissue
*Bother written in the first person. representing a metaphor of paper to emphasis how a man-made building is
weak and useless compared to the wind. In Ozymandias, it states "half sunk, a
*Both powerful object shattered visage lies" emphasising how the desert is vast and survives longer
than the broken statue.
*Humans cant effect the damaging effects of time.
Both poems show how nothing lasts forever. In Tissues, it says "rivers make
*Nature can take away anything. roads" the poet wants to show how nothing stays the same. It shows how a
river could be destroyed and turned into something else showing that
*Nothing lasts forever. something could be destroyed. In Ozymandias, it says " Two vast and truckless
legs of stone" Where is the rest of the body? What happened to the arms? This
quotation shows how the statue has been rotting away and now only two
trunkless legs of the stone stand. Proves nothing last forever.
