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Summary - Ozymandias for English literature AQA poetry.
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This guide is an easy summary of the key points for the poem including , methods , analysis , quotes and contextual knowledge you need to build a good essay for the exam.

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Poem basics :
Ozymandias by
Percy Shelley
GCSE English Literature: AQA power and conflict


These are the basic facts that you need to know in order to understand the poem, as well
as some of the methods used and finally , authorial intent. But don't forget to offer your
own interpretation as well as the ones you read about.



The poem is a sonnet , with a Volta (turning point )
at line 9 like a Petrachan sonnet.
Form of the poem
Does not follow regular rhyme scheme - reflecting
the way human power , influence and structures are
not eternal and can be destroyed.

Iambic pentameter is used - this is also often
disrupted.

Second hand account - it distances the reader even
further from the dead pharaoh.


Narrator meets a traveler who tells him about a
statue in the middle of the desert.
what is the poem about ?
It's a statue of a king who ruled over a past
civilization. His proud and he arrogantly boasts
about his power in the inscription below the statue.

The statue has ruined so it is reduced to ruins.


Narrator builds up an image of the statue by
focusing on different parts of it in turn. The poem
Structure
ends by describing the enormous desert ,
emphasizing the insignificance of the statue in the
first place.


Irony Nothing is left for the king to boast about as his

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