Poetry-Ozymandias(Shelley)

Question 1

What are the overarching concepts?

Answer 1

• power of man(sf)
• power of nature(sf)
• negative emotions-pride

Question 2

Descibe the context?

Answer 2

• Ramesses II(most powerful pharoh of new kingdom-most powerful period of anchient Egypt
• focused on building cities in the early part of his regin
• Allegory-King George III(tyrant who ruled for a long time)-war with the 13 colonies

Percy Shelley:

• romantic poet
• athiest
• inspired by French revolution

Question 3

Power of man plan:

Answer 3

“Sneer of cold command”-alliteration

“King of kings”-alliteration of power

“Look on my works”-dramatic irony

Question 4

Power of nature plan?

Answer 4

“Which yet survive”-irony-he belived he was a God and would survive, only the statue remians

“Desert”-implies lifeless and lack of culture

“Shattered vissage”-visual imagrey -shattered by nature

Question 5

Negative emotions/pride plan?

Answer 5

“Trunkless legs of stone”-huge but incomplete

“Trunkless”-quality adjective

“Wrinkled lip”-personification (-deacy)

Question 6

Structure/form or ozymandias

Answer 6

Iambic pentamiter

(sonnet-blends Petrarchan and Shakespearean-power is subject to evolution sonnets-loves himself)

• a lot of caesura
• a lot of enjarbment(which undermines the Iambic pentamiter-which breaks away as the poem progresses

like how his city is being undemined

First person narrative

Rhyme scheme:

-starts classic: ABAB
Then soemthing doesn’t fir:CDE(it is being undermined like man is by nature)