Ozymandias

Question 1

Give the 3 overall themes

Answer 1

Power of humans, power of nature and pride

Question 2

Give a 3 point summary

Answer 2

Narrator meets a traveller who tells him about a statue in the middle of the desert.

Statue of ozymandias, the king who ruled over a past civilaisation. Face is proud and inscription is a boast about power.

Statue has fallen and crumbled away in ruins

Question 3

Give ideas about its form

Answer 3

Disrupted iambic pentameter
Irregular sonnet rhyme scheme
Second hand account distances reader

Question 4

Structure of ozymandias

Answer 4

Poem is built up describing the different parts but ends with showing the desert which describes how it is insignificant

Question 5

Irony of ozymandias

Answer 5

Not much is left to show of his ruling and power, showing power of nature. Temporary nature of political clout. Links to shelleys idea of hating oppression.

Question 6

Power language

Answer 6

Nature ruins the statue which was a symbol of his power, showing time and nature wins in the end.

Question 7

Aggressive language

Answer 7

Shows tyranny of ozymandias

Question 8

Give key quotes

Answer 8

"Stand in the desert" 
"Shattered visage"
"Sneer of cold command"  his arrogance and harshness
"Life less things"
"King of kings"
"Look on my works, ye mighty and despair!"
"Nothing beside remains."
"Colossal wreck, boundless and bare"