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“Ozymandias” During the Romantic period, people concentrated on the beauty of nature and the fact that industry ruined it. In the poem, “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the theme of nature versus industry is clearly shown. The poem addresses the fact that nature always wins over what man creates. In the beginning of the poem, there is a traveler who sees a statue. It is actually just a portion of a statue. Only the legs remain of what once was a statue of a king named Ozymandias. The poem states, “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert” (line 2-3). This shows that the statue, which was created by people, was destroyed by the desert environment. This proves that nature won over what people created, since only

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