This is shown when it says "Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command"(Shelley 4). "Ozymandias", on the other hand, is very egotistical and disrespectful. In "Jade Flower Palace", there is no mention of a king or queen who has excessive pride in themselves. Like I said before, vanity means "excessive pride in one's own achievements". But, only one poem shows both the images of vanity and decay: "Ozymandias".
Both "Ozymandias" and "Jade Flower Palace" shows the image of decay. Decay by definition means "to become gradually damaged, rot or decompose, or to decline". Vanity by definition means "excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements". Life moves in an blink of an eye, and for humans, old age comes very fast. The traveler sits down on the grass and starts to cry because he is moved by the sense of brevity of life. As we enter the last stanza, the traveler starts to reflect on what he has just witnessed. Starting at line 14, the poet says that of all the respect and riches that surrounded the palace owner, only a stone horse remains. The poet then says that their beauty was fake because their face was covered in makeup. The beautiful women who used to ride in his chariots are gone. Everything that made the palace special and beautiful has now fallen apart. As we enter the third stanza, the poet starts to contrast the palace right now and how the palace used to look. The poet never clarifies what he means by this, but maybe the music is the rustling of leaves since the last lines talks about the scattering of red autumn leaves. Starting at line 8, the poet starts to contrasts the palace with sounds that emerge from the earth. Some of the black rooms are being lit up by a green light and the pavements around the palace are being washed away. As we progress to the next stanza, the traveler continues to describe how the palace is falling apart. The last line of stanza 1 suggests that the traveler does not know who built the palace, which also suggests that maybe no one knows. But, as we go deeper into the first stanza, we start to get a feeling that the palace is falling apart when it says "gray rats scurry over broken tiles"( Fu 2). Above the palace are pine woods and it is near a stream. The opening lines of "Jade Flower Palace" starts to describe how the palace looks. "Jade Flower Palace" is a poem about a traveler who comes across a deteriorating palace. However, around the decaying ruins, nothing remains only the "lone and level sands,"(Shelley 14) and the empty desert remains. This is the same for "Ozymandias" people were expected to respect the power that the statue represented. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair"(Shelley 10)! This is ironic because when a statue is first built, people are expected to praise the new creation. The pedestal of the statue says, "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings. The half-sunk face was no doubt rendered on a real person, most likely a king who used to have a kingdom. Near the remnants of the statue, lies a half-sunk head that has a patronizing appearance on its face. The traveler then starts to go into more detail about the statue by saying it has two legs without a body. In the opening line of "Ozymandias, the speaker recalls that he met a traveler "from an antique land"(Shelley 1), who told him about a deteriorating statue in the desert. Both of these poems have many similarities, but there are also some differences. Tu Fu was known as "the greatest non-epic, non dramatic poet who has survived in any language". "Jade Flower Palace" was written by a Chinese poet named Tu Fu in 757. It is known as Shelley's most famous short poem.
'Ozymandias' is a sonnet written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and it was released in 1818.
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