Ozymandias

Question 1

Tw- v-st -nd tr-nkl-ss…

Answer 1

Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert.

Question 2

H-lf s-nk, a sh-tt-r-d…

Answer 2

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies

Question 3

wh-s- fr-wn / And…

Answer 3

whose frown / And wrinkled lip

Question 4

sn–r of…

Answer 4

sneer of cold command

Question 5

Th- h–rt th-t m-ck-d…

Answer 5

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed

Question 6

My name…

Answer 6

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings

Question 7

Analysis : MEC + Key Vocab

“My name is ozymandias, king if kings:”

Answer 7

M: Declarative sentance
Caesura
Biblical Allusion
Ploce “king”

1. Evokes sence of cosmic irony as the stentorian nature of the engraving is so arrogant which contrasts to the surroundings. where “nothing beside remains” Suggesting entropy is inevitable…
2. Jesus - arrogant+ Hubristic + Shelly critises the entitlement of monarchs.
   Ozymandias doesnt mean this as a biblical allusion however it is percieved in that way by the reader.
3. Caesura slows pace implying that his reign is immortal

C - Shelly disguises his critisism of the Establishment by critising Ozymandias who was inspired by egyptian tyrant Rameses II by potraying his entitlement and arrogance.

Question 8

Analysis : MEC

“And wrinkled Lip and sneer of cold command”

Answer 8

M-
Polysyndeton
consonane / gutteral alliteration (C)

E- 1. Sculptor has deliberately presented him this was but he is so narsassitic he hasnt noticed.
2. “cold command” spitting contempt for others. He wants to be seen this way to maintain his tyrannical reign and so people keep seeing his as a despot.

C - critical of authority who want to maintian power. Shelly was a romantic

Question 9

Analysis : MEC

Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert

Answer 9

M. Sibilance
Enjambmeny
Auiditory Imagery
Retching velar plosive ‘trunkless”
Personification

E
Sibilance is onamatapeice and evokes sand blowing
Trunkless - invokes a viceral responce gives the impression of dimemberment. - grotesque

Question 10

Analysis : MEC

Structure

Answer 10

1. Initally gives the impression of a Shakesperan sonnet as it starts with ABAB and Iambic pentamenter in initial quatrain
2. However initial resemblance disintergrates especially by the final
   6 lines which more closely resembles a Petrachan sonnet.

E
This breakdown of structure creates a viceral responce and may suggest that power is bound to also go under the process of entropy

Question 11

Context

Context

Answer 11

1. George III was king. Shelley was opposed. to the establishment and monarchy. Some see George III as being drawn on when writing Ozymandias
2. Wanted égaliterian society
3. Romantic
4. Based on Rameses II
5. Inspired by French revolution