His personification of time, the "phantoms of a thousand hours- shows he believes in the omnipotence and surrounding nature of the power. ... In this stanza, Shelley makes it clear that adulthood is a time of apathy and passive behavior. ... The face is "Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read- (4-6). ... - (9-11), meaning that some time ago, a statue of a great man stood here, but yet over the years the magnificent statue has been reduced to rubble. ...

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• Grade Level: High School