Ozymandias - UNFINISHED

Question 1

Who is Ozymandias based on?

Answer 1

Pharaoh Ramesses II

Question 2

Who wrote Ozymandias?

Answer 2

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question 3

What was Shelley known as?

Answer 3

1. One of ‘The Romantics’ - those who wrote about power and nature
2. A ‘radical’

Question 4

What was Pharaoh Ramesses II focused on and known for?

Answer 4

Making Egypt rich and his focus on buildings

Question 5

How old was Ramesses II when he died?

Answer 5

90 years old

Question 6

What sort of family did Shelley come?

Answer 6

Wealthy family

Question 7

What information can we get from…
‘I met a traveller from an antique land’

Answer 7

The narrator hasn’t seen the statue himself, he’s only been told about it

Question 8

What information can we get from… ‘Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone’

Answer 8

‘Vast’ shows power and size
Trunkless shows age and decay

Question 9

What information can we get from… ‘Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,’

Answer 9

There is an absence of life

Question 10

What information can we get from… ‘Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, who frown’

Answer 10

Importance, prestige, prominence, falling - buildings

Question 11

What information can we get from… ‘And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command’

Answer 11

1. He was not a pleasant man
2. Semantic field of intimidation