ozymandias
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- ozymandias
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Famous English Literature Poet. He wrote the poem.
- known for writing romantic poems.
- Got expelled from University because of writing about atheism.
- His father disinherited him.
- Famous English Literature Poet. He wrote the poem.
- what is Ozymandias?
- sonnet
- 14 line poem
- It is about meeting a traveller who told him a
story about the broken statue laying in the desert.
- Although the statue was broken in to pieces there was an expression of anger seen on the face. .
- It shows the order of the emperor Ozymandias. The poem is about the remains of a statue of ozymandias, which is another name for the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II
- Although the statue was broken in to pieces there was an expression of anger seen on the face. .
- sonnet
- When
- The poem was first written in 1817 just after Christmas. It was then published in January 1818.
- why
- it happened because of a competition between Shelley and his friend Horace Smith.
- social context
- Shelley then got
married at the age of 19 with his bride being 16.
- They moved places and he still continued to write.
- He then travelled with another woman who he then married after the death of his first wife.
- Shelley drowned at sea during a trip to Italy.
- Shelley was described as 'radical' and so people think that ozymandias reflects that side of his character.
- Shelley drowned at sea during a trip to Italy.
- He then travelled with another woman who he then married after the death of his first wife.
- They moved places and he still continued to write.
- Shelley then got
married at the age of 19 with his bride being 16.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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