Power and Conflict- Ozymandias
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- Created on: 10-10-19 16:58
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- Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Quotes
- 'sneer of cold command'
- Ozymandias thinks he is superior to everyone else.
- Ozymandias is an arrogant and powerful character which is ironic considered he is left with nothing in the end.
- 'boundless and bare'
- Alliteration
- 'sneer of cold command'
- Ozymandias thinks he is superior to everyone else.
- Ozymandias is an arrogant and powerful character which is ironic considered he is left with nothing in the end.
- 'sneer of cold command'
- Used to emphasise how forgotten the statue is.
- Alliteration
- 'sands stretch'
- Sibilance
- Sands are iconic of time which suggests that the writer was trying to suggest that nothing can outlast time.
- 'Lone and level'
- alliteration
- Used to emphasise how not even a great King can outlast the sands of time.
- Sands are iconic of time which suggests that the writer was trying to suggest that nothing can outlast time.
- 'sneer of cold command'
- Context
- Poet
- Died at the age of 29 because of a boating accident
- Romantic poet
- Was married twice
- Had 2 children with his first wife
- His second wife, Mary Shelley, was 16 when she married him and had 5 children. Only 1 survived..
- Expelled from Oxford with a friend for writing about Atheism
- He was very critical of society at the time.
- Poem
- Inspired by the recent unearthing of Ramesses II (an Egyptian Pharaoh).
- Egyptian Pharaohs saw themselves as Gods in mortal form.
- The reference to the stone statue in the poem is likely to be a direct reference to the recently unearthed statue.
- Egyptian Pharaohs saw themselves as Gods in mortal form.
- Inspired by the recent unearthing of Ramesses II (an Egyptian Pharaoh).
- Poet
- Themes
- One of the main themes of the poem is irony. This is because the statue is the visual proof that not even a powerful ruler can outlast time.
- Pride
- Arrogance
- Time
- Decay
- Nature
- Power
- Tones
- irony
- Untitled
- Form and structure
- A sonnet (14 lines) but with an non conventional structure that starts ABAB but doesn't follow sonnet rhyme schemes.
- Not a love poem (unless the self-love of the ruler)
- The iambic pentameter rhyme scheme is also disrupted and decayed.
- There is a turning point (volta) at Line 9. This reflects how human structures can be destroyed or decay.
- Quotes
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