This document was used in my revision and helped me to achieve a Grade 9 in my English Literature GCSE (159/160) - key words and alternative interpretations of quotes are provided.
BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY written during the reign
Of King George
11I
↳ involved in a large
I met a traveller from an antique land, number of military conflicts
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone around the world
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, ↳ Shelley didn't like the
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
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oppressive monarchical
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, government
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Tell that its sculptor well those passions read King George could be seen
as am inspiration for this
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, Romanticism ·
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; ↳ second gen romance poets
And on the pedestal, these words appear: (like Shelley) often wrote
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; against religion and political control
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! ↳ rich
language fun of metaphors
and classical allusion
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Ramesses II/Ozymandias
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare ↳ similar to King George because he
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The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
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was involved in many military
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-
>
attacks to expand Egypt's borders
Theme : FORM :
those with power are
I SONNET
deluded that their ↳ connotes love :
Ozymadias/King George III is in love with
power is supreme himself
/invincible/everlasting
a mixture of the Petrachan and Shakespearean sonnet form
↳ Petrachan : Shakespeareani
↳
Language : ·
has an octave ·
rmyme scheme
1 .
'Ozymandias' ↳ presents details of
↳ 'Ozy' -
comes from the Ozymandias' power The corm changing highlights
Greek word 'Ozium' -
to ·
has a sestet the fact that all power
breathe ↳ focuses on how power has gives over to new power
↳ Mandias' -
comes from disappeared and nature & Nothing remains forever
the Green Word 'mandate lives on
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to rule
Overal , a sense of power and control is presented in the root of the word
. 'sunk'
2 ,
shattered' , 'frown' ,
'wrinkled' ,
sneer'
↳ plethora of deeply negative language
) to make clear that the
↳
poem is an attack and not praising power (sibilance used
3 . Cold command'
alliterative repetition of the hard 'c' sound
↳ reflects the Marsh nature of Ozymandias langer/aggression shown)
4. 'boundless and bare'
↳ emphasises the emptiness (plosive used
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5 final line
↳ the desert outlives the statue (alliteration used)
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.
6 religious references
It is believed
↳ by some that Ozymadias was the Pharaoh who persecuted Moses (Exodus
↳ immediately sets a religious undertone
↳ 'King of Kings
↳ name given to Jesus in the bible (in 1 Timothy 6 : 15 & Revelations 1)
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