Poem Anthology: Ozymandias Quotes

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  • Created on: 10-10-17 15:42
Ozymandias
Percy Bysse Shelly
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"an antique land"
Antique suggests the place is old and steeped in history, but also it may be out of date and old fashioned.
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"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone"
The statue is barely standing, the rest is ruined and missing. Suggesting that it is being eaten away by time and the desert, a futile struggle to survive where nobody is around to care.
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'Half sunk, a shattered visage lies'
Shattered visage-: Broken face, it is unrecognisable, a statue to someone and we can no longer tell who, has no purpose anymore.
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'sneer of cold command'
Cold command, sneer: suggests Ozymandias’ character as powerful and arrogant ironic now there is nothing left.
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'The hand that mocked them'
‘Mock’ as in to make a model of, but also to make fun of, this is a Pun because of the double meaning.
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'Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
The tone, indicated by the exclamation is strong and authoritative, irony is that nobody is listening.
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'that colossal wreck'
Colossal, meaning vast or huge, is a metaphor for his ego rather than the statue.
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'The lone and level sands stretch far away.'
The lone and level sands outlast the statue, juxtaposed to the power and ego of the statue. Sands are also iconic of time.
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Card 2

Front

Antique suggests the place is old and steeped in history, but also it may be out of date and old fashioned.

Back

"an antique land"

Card 3

Front

The statue is barely standing, the rest is ruined and missing. Suggesting that it is being eaten away by time and the desert, a futile struggle to survive where nobody is around to care.

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Shattered visage-: Broken face, it is unrecognisable, a statue to someone and we can no longer tell who, has no purpose anymore.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

Cold command, sneer: suggests Ozymandias’ character as powerful and arrogant ironic now there is nothing left.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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