Ozymandias Flashcards

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I.M.A.T.F.A.A.L

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I MET A TRAVELLER FROM AN ANTIQUE LAND

Reported speech

Significant legacy

Old but valued

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S.V.O.L

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SHATTERED VISAGE OF LIES

Statue and legacy is fragile

Irony

Forgotten and broken

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S.O.C.C

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SNEER OF COLD COMMAND

Consonance reflects his arrogance and contempt nature

Mocking connotes his cruelty

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T.H.T.M.T

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THE HAND THAT MOCKED THEM

Personifies the hand, power to belittle

Irony as something associated with creation is now involved in destruction

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M.N.I.O.K.O.K

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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

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L.O.M.W.Y.M.A.D

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LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR

Dramatic irony

Despairing state

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CONTEXT

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Percy bysshe shelley found immortality as he lives through his work

Title warns about transience of political power

7 tonne stature of Egyptian pharaoh

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FORM AND STRUCTURE

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Iambic pentameter

Petrarchan sonnet

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