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English Literature

Ozymandias 

Short fiction ii

Explain the function of contrasting characters

imperative verb
"look" indicates
how controlling
he was.
Suggests he is trying to
define himself as stern
and authoritative
Repetition of "Kings" in "king of kings"
shows he wants to show himself as
omnipotent.
Ozymandias is a corrupt Themes"
ruter the missuse of
power.
human power is"
ephemeral
power of nature
over man and
sand is a
metaphor for
time.
caesura
after "remains"
on line 12
Ozymandias
power has
come to an
end.
ruined statue
is a metaphor
for political
power.
Juxtaposition of
Collossal" and
wreck contrast
between former
power and current
state.
The traveller
describes two
legs and a
powderful
looking
disdainful
face.
{Structure)
yo
A sonnet
The
Speaker
retells a conversation
with a traveller
about an ald
broken statue in
the desertor
The
describes the
ending
bareness of the
desert around the
broken statue.
It uses
iambic
pentameter ment of
The statue's
pedestal says it is
"Ozymandias king of
kings" and as the
onlooker-and
power lead to
pride and
misstreal power of
especially other kings- wearth
to admire his works
and despair
{Summary}
Ozymandias
"Peray Bysshe Shelley)
overarching
message that
human power
is temporary
arrogance &
of reliers (key ideas
others art, language
context
timeless messages
Still relevant
today.
(
This form given thoug
weight
a serious tone
literature
it
or more
enduring
of political
Use of irony to contrast than witman power
the arrogance of the
power.
abuse of
power
temporary
nature!
"Ozymandias" can be seen
as a political statement
against any one person or
group gaining great power or
inscription with the actual
now
physical state of the statue Nothing remains of Ozymandias
except a statue and an
inscription
a umbles.
such power can be lost.
written in British monan
1817
Shelley was a
romantic poet,
known for his
radical and
anti-establishment
ideas (1792-1822)
He came from a wealthy
family from sussex and was
expected from oxford uni for
writing about atheism.
He was politically.
radical
and disapproved of the
archy.
Key Quotes:
shattered visage"
→ "sneer of cold command"
"king of kings"
→ "Look upon my works, ye mighty and
despair"
colossal wreck"
"the lone and level sands stretch
far away"
"two vast and trunkless legs of
Stone stand in the desert."
→ "these lifeless things"
"the hand that mocked them and the
heart that fed"
""antique land"

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