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poetry - Coggle Diagram

- - - - sense of irony
      - destruction of a visage that was meant to be remembered forever
      - statues are meant to immortalise leaders
    - - 'sneer' - interesting lexical choice
        
        contemptuous and mocking sense - link to malicious cruelty, and his false sense of superiority
        
        shelly is against military actions/'commands'
    - - corruption of power
        
        london
      - the sculptor's work paradoxically is 'mocking' ozymandias, the statue that was meant to fixate his power and glory has become more of a laughing stock, a statue overrun by nature
    - - biblical refrence
      - views himself as omnipotent
    - - paradoxical
- - - - everywhere is owned by the rich, no escape from the constant divide of wealth
    - - repetition highlights universal effect
    - - reference to industrial revolution in 1800s
      - 'black' - link to immortality and evil - hypocritical nature Blake feels the church have
        
        juxtaposes teachings of purity and love
      - 'appalls' - connotation of dismay due to the lack of action from the church
    - - 'curse' inescapability, a vicious cycle
      - juxtapositional
    - - oxymoronic
- - - - oxymoronic phrase contrasts his guilt of stealing and his pleasure of freedom
    - - semantic field of light
        
        connotations of hope and beauty
      - captivation of beauty
    - - over pleasure - naively taking advantage of nature
      - youthful euphemism
    - - feeble and weak connotations
      - childish and foolish reaction to retreat
    - - an interruption to his gentle childish lifestyle
      - cyclical poem - nature's consistency
      - defeat is portrayed as a transformative and humbling experience