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Ozymandias Flashcards

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Themes

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Death

Time

Power

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Shelley

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‘Romantic’

Atheist

Nature poet

Chaotic life

Written at the end of Napoleons domination of Europe

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Techniques

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Irregular rhyme scheme- no continuity of power

Nomenclature of title- forgotten king, forgotten power

Lexical sets of decay, death- fall from power, defeated, end

Co-ord conj ‘and’- compounds sense of power, exaggerates

Caesura- reflects end of power

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