Power and Conflict - Ozymandias (Shelley)

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In the quotes "sunk" and "shattered visage" what device is used?
symbolism
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The statue may represent the?
downfall of egoistical rulers
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The statue may also represent?
human power
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This may show how human power will always be ?
"shattered" by nature
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Shows the inevitability of a?
powerful dictators downfall
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Here Shelley is actually criticising ?
King George 111
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In the quote "King of Kings" the device used here is?
an allegory
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This may give us what connotations?
religious
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This may be an attack on what leaders?
Godlike leaders
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Were they actually God like?
no
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The Godlike leaders were often ?
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dominant and egoistical
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The setting of the desert may relate to?
the resisted temptation of Jesus
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This shows how easy it is to be what?
tempted by power
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This setting outlives?
the statue
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This reinforces how nature always outlives?
human power
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Shelley was a what poet?
romantic poet
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He wrote poems about how nature inspires?
awe
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However Shelley also used poems to?
criticise useless and corrupt leaders
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What is the form of this poem?
mixture of shakespearian and Petrarchan Sonnet
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This emphasises how everything?
changes
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And that nothing?
lasts forever
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And that power eventually?
fades
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Nature will destroy?
all attempts at control
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