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power and conflict poetry revision
Ozymandias
summary
shelly
romantic poet
radical politically
published 1880
poem = narators meeting with traveller from another land
Ozymandias = name for famous Egyptian pharo (ramses II)
considered to be realy powerfull
meeting with traveler from foreign land
traveler talked about finding ancient statue of king remains.
statue inscription = arrogant, proud, boastfull
key quotes
'shattered visage'
ruined statue = metaphor for political power
to show ozymandiuses power
'sneer of cold command'
alliteration
harsh c's
sound in poem shows speakers distaste towards ozymandius
'nothing besides remains. round the decay / of that colossus wreck, boundless and bare'
juxtiposition ('colosal' and 'wreck')
emphasises contrast between power then and now
caesura (after 'remains')
ozymandiuses power has come to an end
comparison
my last dutchess
london
storm on the island
exposure
the prelude
tissue
london
summary
william blake
suggests the poor cannot escape there circumstances
narators experience of walking through london
shocked by treatment of people in poverty
1794
radical at the time
against religion
saw church as corrupt
saw the french revolution as a good thing