hawk roosting X ozymandias Flashcards
OZYMANDIAS WEITTEN BY
PERCY BYSHEE SHELLY
they both believe they are above all others
“king of kings”
“the hand that mocked them”
“look on my works”
too much power leads to arrogance
“ye mighty and despair!”
“nothing beside remains”
“of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
nature is more powerful than man
“on the sand half sunk”
“the lone and level sands stretch far away”
“two vast and trunk less legs of stone stand in the desert”
PERCY BYSSHEE SHELLEY CONTEXT
romantic poet
watched the arrival of the Egyptian statues
Ramesis II
TED HUGHES CONTEXT
1930-1988
RAISED IN YORKSHIRE
INNOCENT SAVEGERY OF ANIMALS
BEAUTY AND VIOLENCE OF NATURWL WORLD
PERCY BYSSHEE SHELLEY CONTEXT
1792-1822
ROMANTIC POET
PUBLISHED 1818