You can see the huge legs of the statue sticking out. Nearby, sunk in the sand is the statue's crushed face. His expression has remained since time immemorial: frowning, wrinkled lips and sneer, representative of his rule. It is obvious that both the traveler and the sculptor managed to capture the arrogance and passion of the great ruler. The ruins still denote his power. The “hand that mocked” is again a reference to the sculptor and the imitative work he performs. This is an example of a synecdoche, in which the “Hand” is another example of a synecdoche, in which the hand represents the entire statue. The pedestal of the statue is still standing. On it is the message that Ozymandias wanted to leave for posterity. Foolishly, he thought that since he built it, it would last forever. The sonnet uses a single metaphor: the destroyed and ruined statue in the desert, with its arrogant and passionate gaze.