My name... Far away. These lines have been extracted from P.B. Shelley's poem "Ozymandias of Egypt". In the poem the poet has dealt with the idea of human mortality and the permanence of art.
In the present context the poet has shown pride and arrogance of king Ozymandias. It also reflects the idea that man's power and glory are subject to decay.
Ozymandias, the mighty king of Egypt commissioned a sculptor to create his enormous statue to show his power and to immortalize his name. He though that he had done something which others could not do in their life so he asked the "Mighty" to look on his work and despair. He neve realized that material prosperity, pomp and glory are subject to decay With the passage of time the king had died and the broken parts of the statue remained, lying in the vast desert. Around the broken statue of the king Ozymandias, nothing but the sands of the vast desert were visible, spreading to limitless horizon. It stretched in stark contrast to the vain glorious effects of the king to perpetuate his memory and thereby proclaim the transitory aspect of human life. The decaying ancient statue reflects on the idea that the pursuit of power and glory for own sake are fleeting and illusor