Ozymandias Flashcards
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‘King of Kings’
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Has a rhythmic, old testament biblical resonance; Pharaoh wants to be god but shelley was atheist,so he could be mocking him
2
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“And despair
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It is chilling and signify human cruelty. The 2 words are elongated and Ominous if your read slow, with a chopping pitched syllable at the end for emphasis
3
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Sibilance
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‘sh’ + ‘s’ perhaps like wind whistling over sand dunes and also symbolize the eeriness of passing time and degraded power
4
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Structure of Ozymandias
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Sonnet written in Iambic Pentameter
It has an octave and a sestet,each with their own themes and line 9 contains the volta
It is a Pertrachan Sonnet
