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 decayof that colossal wreck, boundless and barethe 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

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .