Ozymandias Flashcards
1
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structure
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- iambic pentameter
- 14 line poem
- ABABACDCEDEFEF
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form
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- mixture of petrarchan and shakespearean sonnet
3
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ozymandias
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- a person once famous and respected but has been completely forgotten ‘“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings’
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themes
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- humans vs nature ‘sands stretch far away’
- power of art ‘its sculptor well those passions read’
- transience of power ‘colossal wreck’
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context
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- competition between Peter Shelley and his friend Horace Smith
- written late 1817
- published in The Examiner in Janurary 1818
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time period context
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- inspired by a statue of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II in the British Museum
