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Term 2 Poems - Coggle Diagram

- - - - “Boundless and bare”
        “Lone and level”
      - These examples are also examples of visual imagery as they give a visual description and help the reader visualise the scene
      - They draw attention to the nothingness and loss caused by the passage of time.
    - - “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
      - End of line rhyme creates a rhythm in the poem, giving it a musical quality.
    - - “Half sunk a shattered visage lies”
      - Assonance also helps create a lyrical tone in the poem, It guides which syllables should be stressed.
    - - “Heart that fed”
        "Hand that mocked them"
      - A synecdoche is a part which represents the whole. In this poem, the synecdoche represents the heartless, preying and cruel nature of Ozymandias.
    - - “Who said: Two vast..the desert”
      - Enjambment has the effect of encouraging the reader to continue reading from one line to the next. It also helps reinforce the narrative quality of the poem since this is a recollection. As this poem is structured as a recollection, it also gives it a conversational quality.
  - - - The poet describes how time will eventually forget us. The trunkless legs represent how no matter how strong or powerful you are, time will erase you. The poet mocks Ozymandias; the inscriptions state how powerful Ozymandias was and how gods would despair looking upon him, yet nothing reminds beside the statue apart from the lone fields of sand that stretch forever. Neither his empire nor his power remained and this reinforces the idea of how the passage of time will forget you.
    - - The poet uses irony and imagery to display how power and strength are impermanent. The statue is described as an accurate depiction of the cruel power and strength that the monarch once depicted, as the cold sneer and wrinkled lip show that the sculptor was skilled. The mention of the hand mocking and the heart preying on the people again reinforces the idea of the cruel, heartless ruler. The inscription on the statue further builds up the image of the monarch in the mind of the reader. However, this image is quickly torn down by the mention of how the implied vast empire has been lost and Ozymandias forgotten. The inscription on the pedestal of the statue suggests that Ozymandias was arrogant or confident in the fact that he would be remembered. The images created by describing the sand around and the barren land again reinforce the fact that even though Ozymandias seemed certain he’d be remembered and feared or praised as much as he was in his own time, his power and empire have faded and dissipated over time.
- - - - Comments on human greed and obsession with luck in a funny, witty manner, which is why it is a satirical poem.
    - - Representative
    - - The speaker is extremely vague, insincere, does not give much information
      - Does not specify the amount of money and does not elaborate on the company
    - - The speaker is insincere and lies to the narrator, but she interprets everything as genuine which makes it ironic and funny, especially when her emotion is described.
- - - - Death is portrayed as invincible, inevitable and unbiased. The "closing of the book," which is used to symbolize death, is shown as abrupt and unpredictable. The book can also close at any time upon anyone, whether it be a fly or a human being.
    - - The fly is described as "blameless" and the mentions of its page of death being a monument, and its lustrous and gleaming wings imply that the fly was angelic and innocent. In the last 3 lines, the poet mentions how even though the book will close on us, we may leave no "lustre on our page of death" and Charles Tennyson Turner urges us to leave behind a positive legacy and live an innocent life.