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Humanity may be considered the most powerful force on the planet, leaving lasting legacies and accomplishing major milestones throughout history. However, as time slips by, everything seems to somehow slowly disappear into the background as white noise, as current events mute memories of the forgotten past, revealing humanity’s greatest threat: time. In Percy Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias”, the reader observes the fallen remains of the stone statue of King Ozymandias, which displays how detrimental time can be against mankind. Through the clever use of rhetorical devices and strategic poetic structure, Shelley illustrates the central image of the stone statue of Ozymandias that encapsulates the theme as an extended metaphor, representing how power of time will continue to always prevail, no matter ambitious one may be.