Ozymandias
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- Ozymandias
- Context
- Shelley was a Romantic Poet
- He was a 'radical'
- From wealthy family
- Expelled from Oxford due to essay on atheism
- About Ramesses ii
- Egyptian Pharaoh
- Greek name was 'Ozymandias'
- Ozy - to breathe air
- Mandias - to rule
- Structure
- Petrarchan sonnet
- Poem of 14 lines and written in iambic pentameter
- Doesn't follow typical rhyme scheme
- Shows structure can be destroyed through art
- Links with theme of power
- One stanza split up only by punctuation
- Volta - line 9
- Petrarchan sonnet
- Themes
- Arrogance + pride
- Power of nature
- Exposure
- Kamikaze
- Power of humans
- Message
- Power is temporary. Even power belonging to a great ruler.
- Linked poems
- The Prelude (power of nature, pride)
- My Last Duchess (inanimate objects, power of humans, pride)
- Tissue (power of humans/ nature)
- Storm On The Island (power of humans/ nature)
- Techniques
- Alliteration- "lone and level"
- Plosive- "boundless and bare"
- Semantic field
- Vast, shattered, passions, stamped on, mocked, pedestal, king of kings, ye Mighty, colossal
- Context
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