OZYMANDIAS
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- Created on: 04-11-16 11:34
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- OZYMANDIAS
- PURPOSE
- Narrator meets a traveller who tells him about a crumbling statue in the middle of the desert.
- ORGANISATION
- irregular sonnet rhyme - reflects how human power and structures can be destroyed.
- "the heart that fed; / And on the pedestal these words appear
- secondhand account - distances reader further from the king
- "i met a traveller from an antique land'
- irregular sonnet rhyme - reflects how human power and structures can be destroyed.
- EMOTION
- PRIDE - ruler was proud, he wanted others to admire his achievements
- "kings of kings"
- ARROGANCE - he believed he was the most powerful
- "look on my works, ye Mighty'
- POWER - human civilisations are insignificantto passing of time
- "Of that colossal wreck"
- PRIDE - ruler was proud, he wanted others to admire his achievements
- TECHNIQUES
- alliteration
- "lone and level"
- emphasises the feeling of empty space in the surrounding desert
- "boundless and bare'
- emphasises the feeling of empty space in the surrounding desert
- "lone and level"
- alliteration
- PURPOSE
- THEMES - power of humans, power of nature, pride (negative)
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