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Ozymandias - Coggle Diagram
Ozymandias
Power of humans
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Ozymandias has no power now and there is nothing left of his "works" even his impressive statue has collapsed.
Shelly uses irony to highlight the contrast between Ozymandias' belief in his own power and the reality that all his achievements are insignificant compared to the "boundless" desert
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Power of Nature
Nature is a powerful force that can cause suffering and destruction as well as having the power to change humans and affect their decisions.
In Ozymandias, nature has destroyed what is left of the once "great" man that lived all those years ago. This shows that nothing can last forever
Power, like the statue is lost to the sands which in turn represent time
Negative Emotions-Pride
The reference to his "sneer of cold command" suggests that he thought everyone else was inferior to him, and that he treated his subjects badly.
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About
The narrator meets a traveller who tells him about a statue standing in the middle of the desert. It's a statue of a king who ruled over a past civilisation. He face is proud and he arrogantly boast about how powerful he is in an inscription on the statue's base.However, the statue has fallen down and crumbled away so that only the ruins remain.
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Shelley, a Romantic poet who was well known as a 'radical' during his lifetime. He was expelled from university for writing about atheism which led to him to fall out with his father who disinherited him. Some people think Ozymandias reflects this side of his character. Although it is about the remains of a statue of Ozymandias (another name for the Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II) it can be read as a criticism of people or systems that become huge and believe themselves to be invincible.
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The Rhyme scheme is irregular, perhaps symbolic of the broken statue itself, no longer perfect.