Ozymandias Flashcards
Power poem - compare to the Prelude
What is a summary of Ozymadias .
- The speaker tells conversation with traveller bout old broken statue ind esert .
- travel descires two two legs n powerful looking disdained face .
- statue pedestal says ozymdnas ‘King of kings’ telling other ings to looka t his might work in ‘despair’ ending described bareness of desert and broken statue .
key aspects of poem . ozymandis
-use of traveller to descire the statue , distnces the reader from poem a’s origianl speaker . Supporting the poem’samcoemt,atter. reproted speech amkes the views seem to be expressed as universal .
more on ozymadnias ey aspects
usign irony conrtats arrongce fo te inscirption with actual physcial state of the tatue hsowig how worldy opwer @crumbles and fades @
-its in a sonnet - it shows power of transicnce , highight ozymadnias delusional sense of pwoer and supremacy .
ozymandias setting
- shelley depics the desert as a barren wastelands , symobolisng poointelessness of gret empires .
- another way is that the framing device of the poem is efectibely all reported speech ‘a traveller’ ozymandias ing of kings , is further reduced a story being passed around in chance encouner .
key echinique irony
Shelley uses irony to enbale the reader to share his criticism of Ozymandias and pehrpas also of other app pwoerful regimes . Despie Ozyamdnias statemnt of about his ‘works’ nothign beside him remains which makes the boastful coment ironic , highlighitg how wrong he was to mke those claims .
Shelly also creates irony hrough juxtapostion , by placing ozyymandias’ grand claims so close to ‘nothging beside remains’ thi srtatemnt revelas king’s baosts to be irioinc and inaccruacy amkes him look ridiculous .
shellh createss a semanitc field of deteoriottion by
using adjectives like ‘trunkless’ and ‘shattered ‘ from the beginnign shows the decay of Ozymandias power nd the civillisation he ruled was transcient
‘wrinkeled lip cold comand’
assonace and cold command alliteration forgerforudns pharohs cruelty as autocraticness of ozyandias ..
reflects his tryannical leadership
nothing beside remiasn VOLTA .
Ironic structure wise palcing this immediatle ater Ozymadnias declaring his power shows its metiness nd trasncifecne . also shifts focus from statue to deset. Shellu disrupsts trafitonal sonnet , replicating breakdown of Ozymadnias pwoer .
Last line ozyymandias
allitation creates harmionious image of infinitee nature conrasting with pharoahs brtual and hsort lilf e simiaelry ‘which yet surbive’ shows paassion of the art surviign but the actual empire does not shows lif is tempaort and art i forever . Aslo angr as sculpotor put in hardowkr for the statue but now noting .
more on ozymanidas
could also be a criticism of the church @king of kings@ which is a biblical refrecne , shows hat izmanidas sees hiself as god like but also shelly is sayng pwoer od church won;t last .
What to compare Ozymandias too ?
‘My last Duchess’ also presens ideas baout social control , noth Ozymadnias and Duke proudly protect their power .
Ozymandias uses a distanced third perosn speaker , while my las duchfes is a drmaic monologue peoiin the Duke’s first hand .
