Ozymandias Flashcards
Quote from ozymandias opening the story
I met a traveller from an antique land
Quote talking about size but also disrepair of ozymandias (stand)
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.
Quote from ozymandias talking about the irony of him being destroyed and his expression (sunk)
Half sunk a shattered visage lies
Visage - a persons face
Juxtaposition from ozymandias showing how art can outlive humans but nature kills all eventually
Yet survive stamped on these lifeless things
Quote ridiculing ozmandias old power compared to now
The hand that mocked them
Ozymandias famous lines on his pedestal
My name is Ozymandias,king of kings
Quote emphasising ozymandias having nothing
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck,
Quote with plosive b sounds and softer l sounds from ozymandias showing the nothingness by his statue
Boundless and bare,the lone and level sands stretch far away
Structure in Ozymandias
Irregular rhyme scheme (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)
Single stanza shows power of nature and Ozymandias
Iambic pentameter
