"Ozymandias"

"'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'

Nothing beside remains.  Round the decay" (9-11).

In "Ozymandias," by Percy Bysshe Shelley, I found myself trying to pronounce Ozymandias in as many ways as possible instead of actually figure out the meaning.  Despite this hardship, I did manage to possibly get something out of it.  For instance, the above line makes me chuckle because of the irony.  A once mighty king now lies in ruins.  How depressing would that be?

Anyways, I think that this entire poem is kind of mocking the material rewards of power and royalty maybe?

The first line says that the traveler was from an antique land.  I know that that adjective has an implication, but I do not know what it is!  It kind of goes along with the old-fashioned feel in the poem, but I think that there is more.

Oh, and I listened to you and looked up words I didn't know in the dictionary, but it wasn't there.  I guess Ozymandias is was a person so it makes sense.