Ozymandias - Power and Conflict
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- Created on: 10-04-21 10:22
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- Ozymandias
- Form
- Poem written in a sonnet form
- Doesn't follow regular sonnet rhyme. Reflects that human power and structures can be destroyed
- Uses iambic pentameter but this is often disrupted
- Story is a second hand account which distances the reader from the dead king
- Structure
- Narrator builds up image of statue and focusses on different parts.
- Poem ends by describing the sheer size if desert making statue seem insignificant
- Irony
- Statue seen as symbol of temporary power.
- Belief that it's possible to overturn social and political power
- Use of irony reflects hatred and oppression
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Language
- Poem focusses on the power of Ozymandias, shows human power.
- His power has been lost
- Power only visible because of art
- Nature has ruined statue
- Nature and time have more power
- Agressive language used
- Poem focusses on the power of Ozymandias, shows human power.
- Form
- Context
- Shelley was a romantic poet.
- Disliked monarchies, absolute power and oppression of ordinary people
- Views inspired by French Revolution
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