Ozymandias Flashcards
Structure
Shellys choice of form in ozymandious conveys a messgwe. The sonnet is precise and complex which he manipulates by varying standard verse linking the first octave to last sestet with the rhyme of kings . The formal and carefully organised form represents the sculptures original completeness and power but is ironic due to how it has been destroyed by the lements and time. Nature has overcome
Ending of ozymandias
“Level Sands stretch far away” final line of poem, all of ozymanias’s works have been washed away by time. Sand is symbolic of time through the hourglass at shelly’s day. Level shows that time has made everything equal and that over time without human meddlings, nature can even out and be perfect again. Humanity sirupts nature.
“Look on my works,ye mighty and despair”
Ozymandias wants people to feel hopless and despaired at his overhwhelming power but people are depairing at his works because nature has eradicated his fame and even his name as pharoh rameses the second is being called ozymandias . all that is left is “two trunkless legs of stone “ and “shattered visage”. Nothing left of the kingdom that he built
“King of kings”
Narcississtic views , reference to jesus and saying he is god like. Bulding himself up for nature to bring him down
