Ozymandias

Question 1

Structure

Answer 1

• Loose iambic pentameter- disrupted or decayed
• A sonnet - could be respect to Ozymandias or ,as the form is about love, could be another representation of the pharaohs hubris
• Enjambment and caesuras - apparent lack of control, set against highly structured form of sonnet, reminder of the limits of Ozymandias’s power

Question 2

‘The hand that mocked them, the heart that fed’

Answer 2

• Introduces the volta
• Caesura - makes the reader pause to realise how callous and cruel he is
• ‘Mocked’ - connotations of belittling and ridicule
• ‘Heart that fed’ - irony, feeding them nothing as he is ‘cold’ hearted
• Also describing the sculpture, suggests art it more powerful than political power, mocking him as he portrays him as his true self
• Portrays him as a monster as he’s ‘feeding’ off the vulnerable people