Poem - Ozymandias Flashcards

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The first person narrator ‘met a traveller’ what effect does this give on the reader?

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This immediately diminishes Ozymandias’ power as the whole point of his statue was that all would know and fear hime however he has now been reduced to a second hand account

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An oxymoron directly contrasting Ozymandias’ power and what has now become of his statue

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‘2 vast and trunkless legs of stone’🚶🏽

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Why was Percy Shelley expelled from university?

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For atheism. Because of this, his father disinherited him

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What is the point of Ozymandias?

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Ozymandias is the condemnation of leaders, monarchs or governments that believe themselves to be invincible

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This poem is about how a magnificent statue of a powerful ancient king is…

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“Sunk”, “shattered” and “lifeless”

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The king is portrayed as an arrogant and heartless ruler

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Frown / And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command

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The king is shown to be hubristic

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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

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This poem is a sonnet but does not fit regular sonnet structure

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Doesn’t have normal rhyme scheme or punctuation. It has irregular rhyme. The poem is written in iambic pentameter, which gives the poem some regularity.

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The final rhyme in the poem in lines 12 and 14 means that the poem ends with a feeling of mystery and emptiness

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decay / away

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The mighty and powerful should despair at the works of Ozymandias as they too will vanish over time and leave nothing but ruins of their greatness.

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Nothing beside remains

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Shelley was a radical thinker who lived in a period when the British government were fearful of revolution and took oppressive measures against radicalism. How is Ozymandias related to this?

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Ozymandias is Shelley’s indictment of authority that declares itself to be all powerful

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Ozymandias is not just about the transience tyranny. It is also about…

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The survival of art and language

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When published, Ozymandias was not…

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Met with critical acclaim, but is now part of popular culture

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Ozymandias was used in an episode in the last series of one of the best TV shows ever

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Breaking Bad (Rise and fall of Walter White). Walter reads it whilst looking out over the New Mexico desert.

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