Percy Shelley's poem Ozymandias strikes me as being ironic in lines 11-13. The plaque first reads that Ozymandias is the king of kings and his work will speak for itself; however, the next line disputes all of that by saying nothing remains. This proves that Ozymandias wasn't that great of a king as he claims because he couldn't withstand time.
Time is a theme evident in both Ozymandias and Ponder These Busted Statues. Here, time is personified in line 11: "Them Greediest Paws of careful time." "Greediest paws" refers to time as being devious and working against him and his lover. The speaker in Ponder These Busted Statues uses time as an argument to persuade the object of his affection to have sex with him but in a satirical manner. Cummings' poem is a parody of To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell.
good response!
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