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English Lit - Poetry
Ozymandias
Context
Wrote by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Romantic Poet
Loved nature
Against Politic beliefs for his time
Against slave labour
Inspired by Egypt expectation
Pharaoh Romese II
Believed in God
Died of old age
Sonnet - Narrative monolog
Mimics Shelleys love of nature
Mimics Romese's self love
Title
Ozy
Egyptian Pharaoh Romese II
"to breath"
Vane
Only care for himself
Mandias
Greek word
"to rule"
Key Quotations
"I met a traveller from an antique land who said:"
'I met' and 'who said'
The first person pronoun "I" implies that the statue is not worth the voice going to visit themselves and just hearing about it is enough.
2nd hand account
Frame Narrative
Creates distance
'antique'
The adjective "antique" is mocking the Pharaoh as he died of old age
It is saying that he is forgotten as well as the statue
"Half sunk, a shattered visage lies"
'Lies'
Metaphorical
He is laying on the ground
Nobody knows who he is anymore - or looks like
Unrecognisable - opposite of what he wanted
'Half sunk'
Adjective
Nobody cares enough to take him out
Nature is swallowing him
He is less powerful than he thought
'Shattered visage'
Ironic
Even a powerful human cannot control the damage effect that time and nature has
Vosage
Disgusted
Visage = face
Themes
Power of Humans
Power of Nature
Negative emotions - pride
Structure
The narrator builds an image of the statue by focusing on different parts of it.
The poem ends by describing the enormous desert
This sums up the insignificant of the statue.
Form
Sonnet
Narrative monolog
Volta (turning point) in line 9 like a Petrarchan sonnet
Rhyme Scheme
It doesn't have a regular rhyme scheme that a sonnet
1/2 Patrardon and 1/2 Shakespearean
The change in rhyme scheme mimics the change in writing styles and time that has passed since he died
This could be to mimic the way that human power and structures can be destroyed.
Iambic Pentameter
Shows disturbance
2nd hand account
Distances reader from the Pharaoh
The Emigree