So, flicking up and down my poetry book…

… I picked a poem but decided it was way to long, so I picked another.

Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelly

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
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.

This little poem can be (very basically) taken in two ways, either
A) As a reminder that everybody forgets or
B) to serve as a warning that everything you do is remembered.
It seems hard to believe that this poem could mean one of two things that seem to be total opposites.
The statue of the once mighty Ozymandias is broken now and nothing remains beside it. It isn’t visited very often and its surrounds seem to be decaying away. It is referred to as a wreck but yet….
His passions still live on in those lifeless things and they few that do visit remember. Also, the line; "The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed". Can also be taken in two ways. This could be talking about visitors that mocked his memory therefore beginning to destroy it and those who still kept it in their heart feeding the memory. It could also be about Ozymandias himself.
So you can plainly see how it is all up to your interpretation and as long as you have enough evidence to back up your claims you are always right.