Ozymandias

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

. Written by shelly in a collection in 1819
. The Egyptian pharaohs believed themselves to be God’s in mortal form
. That their legacy would last forever

Question 2

Themes

Answer 2

Power and conflict

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

Every powerful man or women the idea they will also drift away until they are just another grain of sand

Question 4

Structure

Answer 4

Written in sonnet

Question 5

Higher marks

Answer 5

. The poem is a ironic memorial to the ego of a ancient pharaoh
. The statue is an allegory for the eventual end of power that everyone must suffer especially the proud
. Power like the statue is lost to the sands which in turn represent time

Question 6

Lone and levels sands stretch far away

Answer 6

Juxtaposed to the power and ego of the statue
Sands are also iconic of time

Question 7

Colossal wreck boundless and bare

Answer 7

Metaphor for his ego rather than the statue