Sonnets have been chosen by the poets in order to express their feelings and emotions through the use of language, atmosphere, and rhymes. The poems all represent the theme of time and how time is a major part of life and how it can bring joy and yet at the same time it brings despair. The theme is about time and is shown to be different as in the poem "Ozymandias" time is shown to have a destructive nature, "shattered visage lies" (Ozymandias). It shows how over time the statue, representing the reign of the pharaoh, slowly crumbles as time passes. The opposite of this is found in the poem "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer". This regards time as being timeless. The author, John Keats, is overwhelmed at what he is reading and describes it as time making a discovery, "it's pure serene" (On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer). The poem seems to capture time and so maintaining the praise for the book. The last poem, Shakespeare's sonnet, covers both sides of time that the first two poems were describing. Shakespeare shows the time as a cycle, a life cycle. Time brings an end to things and it is running out for but it also talks of new life shown a line later, "Minuites hasten to their end...nativity" (Shakespeare Sonnet 60). It is different because the same poem talks about birth and death in the same poem whereas the others do not. Shelley's poem focuses on the destruction side of time and Keats' poem focuses on the beauty side of it yet Shakespeare talks about both sides.
             In "Ozymandias" the poet presents the theme of time by using a deliberate and slow rhythm so that we can appreciate the greatness of power and authority there is in the statue. This makes time seem even bigger as it has the power to destroy the great statue. This is helped by the use of alliteration, "two...trunkless...stone...sand" (Ozymandias). These occur throughout the poem and add emphasis in describing the remnants of the statue. Time has allowed the dese...