Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ozymandias
- Link to conflict
- Conflict between a warrior's great power being reduced to wreckage.
- Link to
power
- In this poem it shows that human power does not last forever,
because nature is stronger. power can become addictive.
- 5 key quotes
- "King of
kings"
- Voice of
ozymandias
- "Sneer of cold
command"
- "sneer" brutal sinister and
violent
- "Look on my works ye Mighty and
despair"
- Pharo wanted people to feel
intimidated - shows power is awful.
- "Nothing beside
remains"
- bathos/juxtaposition - power has
gone
- "Colossal wreck boundless and
bare"
- semantic field
"wreck" "bare" to
symbolise that
power falls to
nothing.
- Structure
- The sonnet rhyme scheme is
irregular.
- Maybe symbolic of the statue itself, no longer
perfect.
- Could symbolise the broken, corrupt
power.
- Context
- It acts as a warning to anyone who thinks they are immortal that power won't
last.
- It could be seen as a poem that criticises King George1st who
used force
- It is a romantic poet who believed in the power of
nature.
- Shelly hated violence and power being taken by
force.