These two poems have differing tones and main ideas. Whereas Ozymandias’ tone is depressing and ironic, Ponder presents a facetious tone that is quite rushed. While both poems hint at the concept of time and its ephemeral nature, they each separately use time as a vehicle to hint at different main ideas. Ozymandias presents the idea of greatness that seemed everlasting but then counters that feeling of timelessness by describing how quickly vast loneliness can tear down something so powerful. This poem suggests the presence of a wonderful empire that expects to take on an everlasting legacy, however over time it decays into “nothing.” Ponder uses the concept of time to illustrate that time is of the essence and similar to Marvell’s “Coy Mistress” the pace is rushed and harsh in order to allude to his main request that all that's important is “horizontal business.”
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