Read the analysis of a theme from "ode on a grecian urn."

one theme in "ode on a grecian urn" is that art is an eternal and unchanging truth.

now, read the passage from "ozymandias," another poem from the romantic period.

and on the pedestal these words appear:
"my name is ozymandias, king of kings:
look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! "
nothing beside remains. round the decay
of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
the lone and level sands stretch far away.

while the theme of "ode on a grecian urn" focuses on how art is eternal, the theme of "ozymandias" focuses on how

royalty is superior.
nature endures.
things change.
deserts are lonely.

While the theme of "Ode on Grecian urn" focuses on how art is eternal, the theme of "Ozymandias" focuses on how things change.

Explanation:

Both the poems are from the romantic period but their themes are contrasting to each other. The former poem focuses on the eternity and the unchanging truth while the latter focuses on the constant changes which are taking place around us. There is nothing as unchanging and everything in this world is subjected to mortality.

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .