Ozymandias Flashcards
Give 3 pieces of context about Shelley:
-Shelley was a major romantic poet, radical in his views about poetry and politics
-Shelley didn’t like the royal family
-Shelley was expelled for writing an atheist poem as he criticised both people and systems that became huge and considered themselves invincible
What themes are explored in the poem?
-Power of nature
-Power of humans
-Power of art
-Futility
-The transience of power
What are 2 pieces of context about the poem?
-At the time (1819), a large part of a statue depicting the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II was unearthed
-Egyptians were highly superstitious and believed that there legacy would continue to exist in the underworld
What are 2 points of structure about the poem?
-Irregular rhyme scheme
-Loose iambic pentametre
What is the form of the poem?
Sonnet form
What tones is the poem spoken in?
-Arrogance
-Sarcasm
-Irony
-Pity
-Admiration
‘I met _ _________ ____ __ _______ ____’
‘I met a traveller from an antique land’
‘____ in the ______, near ____, __ ___ ____,’
‘Stand in the desert, near them, on the sand,’
‘Half ____, a _________ ______ ____,’
‘Half sunk, a shattered visage lies,’
‘whose _____, and ________ lip, and _____ __ ____ ________’
‘whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command’
‘____ that ___ ________ well _____ ________ ____ which ___ ______,’
‘tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive,’
‘the hand ____ ______ ____, and the _____ ____ ___’
‘the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed’
‘King __ _____’
‘King of kings’
‘Look __ __ _____, ye _____ ___ _______’
‘Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair’
‘_______ beside _______’
‘Nothing beside remains’
