Ozymandias Flashcards
I.M.A.T.F.A.A.L
I MET A TRAVELLER FROM AN ANTIQUE LAND
Reported speech
Significant legacy
Old but valued
S.V.O.L
SHATTERED VISAGE OF LIES
Statue and legacy is fragile
Irony
Forgotten and broken
S.O.C.C
SNEER OF COLD COMMAND
Consonance reflects his arrogance and contempt nature
Mocking connotes his cruelty
T.H.T.M.T
THE HAND THAT MOCKED THEM
Personifies the hand, power to belittle
Irony as something associated with creation is now involved in destruction
M.N.I.O.K.O.K
MY NAME IS OZYMANDIAS, KING OF KINGS
Assertion of human vs nature
Hubris and irony contrasts with the decayed state of his empire
Impermanence of power
L.O.M.W.Y.M.A.D
LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR
Dramatic irony
Despairing state
CONTEXT
Percy bysshe shelley found immortality as he lives through his work
Title warns about transience of political power
7 tonne stature of Egyptian pharaoh
FORM AND STRUCTURE
Iambic pentameter
Petrarchan sonnet