Ozymandias Flashcards
I Met ATFAAL
“I met a traveller from an antique land”
Two VATLOS
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
Stand ITD
“Stand in the desert”
Half S,ASVL
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
Whose FAWL
“Whose frown and wrinlked lip”
Sneer OCC
“Sneer of cold command”
On TP
“On the pedastool”
MNIO,KOK
“My name is ozymandias, king of kings”
Look OMW,YMAD
“Look on my works, ye mighty and despair”
Nothing BR
“Nothing beside remains”
Round TDOTCW
“Round the decay of that colossal wreck”
BAB
“Boundless and bare”
The LAL
“The lone and level”
Sands SFA
“Sands stretch far away”
Ozymandias
Greek name for Ramesses 2nd=no longer relevant, ozy=air to breath, mandias=to rule
Form
Sonnet with volta, no regular rhyme, poem short like the memory of him,