"Sonnet 116" and "Ozymandias" are two sonnets which illustrate themes of love and power. In "Sonnet 116" love triumphs over time, while in "Ozymandias" time triumphs over power. These themes are developed by the figurative language in each poem. "Sonnet 116" is saying that true love can last forever. In the third quatrain it says, "Love alters not with his breefe houres and weekes." That means love never changes even though time passes. In the third quatrain it also says, "Lov's not Time's foole, though rosey lips and cheeks within his bending sickles compasses come." The poet personifies time and explains that time can't make a fool out of love. Love is not under time’s power, though time has the power to destroy rosy lips and cheeks and make one look older, but love can last forever. In the second quatrain it says "That [love] lookes on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering barke." This means love can't be destroyed by a powerful storm and it is the guiding star to lost ships. Love is an unchanging light that shines on storms without being shaken. In the couplet, the speaker says if his statements can be proved to be wrong, he must never have written a word, and no man can ever have been in love. But we know this means that what he has written is true. In conclusion, Shakespeare is no fool, for his success over time with his true love. In the sonnet "Ozymandias" time triumphs over power. The poem explains that no one can live forever. In the sonnet, a ruined statue of Ozymandias in the Egyptian barren desert is illustrated. “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone,” show a broken down statue with only legs remaining. "Half sunk, A shattered visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command." The head and face of Ozymandias is still recognizable, but it is “shattered,” and, though his “sneer of cold command” continues, it is obvious that he no longer commands anyone or anythin