Ask Me in the 21st Century

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair."
("Ozymandias" - Percy Bysshe Shelley)

This picture is obviously real.

Ozymandias seems like a pretty mean dude.  He is characterized through many details such as "cold," "frown," and "wrinkled lip."  Personally, I would not want to be under his command.  However, the above excerpt is pretty ironic.  These words have stood the test of time; however, that is the only thing that has made it through the many years.  Around the statue is a "colossal wreck" which contains nothing.  No great power or empire exists from Ozymandias' time.  His statue stands alone among the sand - no person despairs at his work because all of it is gone.  Words may be eternal, but being eternal does not always mean they are true.

I'm not exactly sure what the image of the "hand" and the "heart" is referring too.  I was thinking that "the hand that mocked him" was a metaphor to the people that never thought that he could cause such destruction or have such a powerful rule.  Maybe "the heart that fed" is the people who served this tyrant.  The "hand" and "heart" are synecdoche because one part of a person represents an entire group of people.  A synecdoche is effective because the speaker is placing the blame at the "hand" and "heart" of those who mocked the tyrant.