Ozymandias Flashcards
C. What is the poem a warning off
Danger of power
C. What is more powerful then humans
Nature
C. What type of poet was Shelley
Romantic
T. “Ozy”
Greek. ‘To breath to air’
T. “Mandias”
‘To rule’ ,of importance
Ov. Who does narrator meet
A traveller in middle of desert
Ov. What is the statue
arrogant, falls apart
Or. Caesura break in line
Breaking= destruction of human power
Or. Iambic pentameter
Breaks Emphasising importance
L. “ smear of cold commands”
Alliteration, ozy abuses power
L. “My name is ozymandias, king of kings”
Metaphor, arrogance, abuse of power, biblical illusion egotistical behaviour levels to god
L. “Mighty and despair”
Juxtaposition of power and fear, irony ozy despair about loosing power
“ lone, level, sand, stretched”
Sibilance, semantic field of emptiness, emphasising sinister nature of human power, he is now insignificant
S. 3 speaker
Narrator(“I met”), traveller(“who said”)
Ozy(“my name is”)
