Ozymandias

Question 1

Who wrote Ozymandias

Answer 1

Percy Bysshe Shelly

Question 2

Context of Percy Bysshe Shelly

Answer 2

An atheist
Romantic poet

Question 3

Ozymandias - context

Answer 3

Greek name for Ramaseas II
He had an 11m statue of himself

Question 4

Important quotes - Ozymandias

Answer 4

Shattered visage → ideas of fragmentation / loss and destruction / time

Cold Command → cruel harsh

My name is Ozymandias King of Kings
Look on my works ye Mighty and despair → ozymandias is arrogant (despair → power strength overconfidence and fear)

Colossal wreck, boundless and bare → oxymoron juxtaposes ozymandias belifes (suggetss great failure), ‘boundles’ show the limitless never ending nature

Lone and level sands stretch far away → reinforces ‘boundless’ ‘level’ suggests nature is calm and reliable (the opposite of ozymandias and man)

Question 5

Important structure - Ozymandias

Answer 5

Form of a sonnet - Percy’s love for nature or ozymandias love for himself

Question 6

Summary - Ozymandias

Answer 6

A man is told a tale about a vast statue that is now a wreck

Explores the idea that man is temporary whilst time and nature is enduring

Question 7

Tones - Ozymandias

Answer 7

Irony
Emptiness
Admiration (of nature)
Mockery