Sounds

Sounds bring imagery and sense to a work. More than longer works, poems truly bring out the intensity of sound through alliteration, assonance, rhyme, and other literary devices. Moreover, the poem Ozymandias utilizes many different poetic devices that change up the sound of the poem. The first half of the poem flows consistently with rhyme and fluid sentences and a lack of wordiness. However, there are certain phrases such as "cold command" that make the reader feel like they are in the poem and such consonance refers to the lonely ruins that remain. However, the fluidity of the poem ends quickly with the caesura "Nothing besides remains". After the caesura, the poems fluidity and smooth sound quickly ends and becomes choppy. The importance of sound in this poem is to express the change in time from a smooth, vast empire to choppy and stoney remains. Therefore, sounds aid to the story line of the poem while explaining the details and setting through fluidity and choppiness.