Ozymandias Flashcards
1
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Quotes p.1.
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“I met a traveller”
“antique land”
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stones”
“Stand in the desert”
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
“frown” “wrinkled lip” and “sneer of cold command”
“Tell that it’s sculptor well those passions read”
2
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Quotes p.2.
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“The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed”
“on the pedestal”
“‘king of kings, Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair!’”
“Nothing beside remains.”
“the decay Of that colossal wreck”
“boundless and bare”
“lone and level sands stretch far away”
3
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STRUCTURE
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- Narrator builds up an image of statue by focusing on diff parts of it in turn
- Poem ends by describing the enormous desert m; helps sum up insignificance of statue
4
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FORM
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- Petrarchan sonnet w/ irregular rhyme scheme; reflects how human power and structures can be destroyed
- Volta (turning point) at line 9
- Iambic pentameter used which is often disrupted
- Second hand account; distances reader even further from king
