Ozymandias Percy Shelley
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- Created on: 10-02-23 12:36
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- Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Language
- Semantic Field
- "vast and trunkless" - deterioration
- "Half sunk, a shattered visage"
- "Decay...wreck"
- Reported Speech
- "Who said"- distancing effect
- Assonance
- "Wrinkled lip"
- Alliteration
- "boundless and bare"
- "lone and level sands stretch.."
- "Cold command"
- Imperative
- "Lok on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
- Irony through Juxtaposition
- "These lifeless things"
- Rhyme- supports the theme of decay
- "frown...stone"
- Semantic Field
- context
- A partial statue of Ramses ii (Ozymandias in Ancient Greek) was brought to London from Greece when this poem was written.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Husband of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Friend to Lord Byron and drowned in a boating accident in Italy.
- "I met a traveller" the character of the "traveller" reduces any direct criticism of monarchy/ government by Shelley.
- form and structure
- "beside remains" turning point mid-line shifts focus from statue to desert; Shelley disrupts traditional sonnet form, replicating breakdown of Ozymandias' power
- Form - Sonnet
- themes
- "King of Kings" Arrogant Declaration
- "pedastal" Power lifting itself up for display
- "Which yet survive" Passions - i.e tyranny and arrogance - survive while the actual empire does not.
- Language
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