Power & Conflict- Ozymandias
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- Created by: weird_avocado
- Created on: 23-11-19 12:56
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- Ozymandias
- Form & Structure
- Sonnet
- ironic since it is about self-love rather than love for someone else -Romanticism
- Thick-to- narrow look
- power & statue are sinkng
- Sonnet
- Context
- Ozymandias is a statue of the Egyptian ruler Rameses II
- French Revolution- power shifting to majority
- Romantic poet- dislike for empires & royalty, and the way poorer classes were kept down
- 1) 'I met a traveller from an antique land'
- 'met'
- narrator is removed
- reliability is questioned
- 'antique'
- ambiguous
- value of time
- 'met'
- Themes
- Status/ Hierarchy
- Art
- Power
- Nature
- Time
- 2) 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
- oxymornic image
- lack of body, lack of heart
- no connection between brain and body (links to context of Rameses II)
- 3) 'Stand in the dessert'
- defiance
- 4) 'Half sunk, a shattered visage lies'
- 'Half sunk'
- nature is more powerful
- alone, isolation
- 'shattered visage'
- identity left
- time is erasing power
- two sides of human nature: to be a successful leader, the personal side private and hidden
- 'Half sunk'
- 5) '...sneer of cold command'
- 'sneer'
- superiority
- 'cold command'
- alliteration
- harsh nature
- juxtaposition
- cold sneer and hot desert
- alliteration
- 'sneer'
- 8) '...hand that mocked them and the heart that fed'
- 'mocked'
- statue has more power than pharaoh
- 'hear that fed'
- feeding off people
- keeping poor, poorer (link to context)
- feeding off people
- 'them'
- separation between people and pharaoh
- could represent pharaoh's passions
- 'mocked'
- 10) '...king of kings'
- playing God
- 11) 'Look at my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
- 'Look'
- imperative
- 'despair'
- imperative
- 'despair'
- 'my'
- personal possessive pronoun
- suggests work was only done by him
- shows ignorance of the slaves who built it (link to context)
- suggests work was only done by him
- personal possessive pronoun
- 'Look'
- 13) '...colossal wreck, boundless and bare'
- 'colossal wreck'
- oxymoronic language
- fear
- metaphor/ symbolism
- civilisation
- oxymoronic language
- 'boundless and bare'
- alliteration
- emphasises emptiness; echo
- alliteration
- 'colossal wreck'
- 12) '...level sands stretch far away'
- symbolism/ metaphor
- hourglass
- time (always passing)
- hourglass
- symbolism/ metaphor
- 12 'Nothing beside remains'
- juxtaposition/ bathos
- anti-climax
- juxtaposition/ bathos
- Form & Structure
- Themes
- Status/ Hierarchy
- Art
- Power
- Nature
- Time
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