ozy language
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- Created on: 17-10-18 18:55
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- Ozymandias-Language
- "boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away"
- Alliteration creates harmonious image of infinite nature contrasting with pharaoh's brutal and short-lived regime.
- "stretch far away"-the desert is vast and survives far longer than the broken statue, emphasising the insignificance of the statue of Ozymandias.
- Shows the humble power of nature as it leaves Ozymandias and stretches away.
- "lone and level": alliteration-emphasises the feeling of empty space in the surrounding desert. isolated image. makes image more vivid
- "king of kings"
- Shows superiority
- However, it shows irony as he is king of nothing and is powerless.
- Arrogant decleration
- "mighty and despair"
- Imperative to other rulers shows arrogance
- Irony: onlookers more mighty than statue as they are still living
- Half-rhyme with "appear"- suggests unease
- "cold command"
- Allusion(reference)-to tyranny: the harsh "c" sound brings this out further. shows cold and aggressive it foregrounds the pharaoh's cruelty
- power of a ruler who was a pharaoh had an empire. statue is extended metaphor of power
- "survive" and "lifeless"
- Antithetical (phrase) juxtaposition(two opposing phrases next to each other): sentiment of power, not actual power, is all that survives
- "boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away"
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