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Ozymandias
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GCSE English Literature Mind Map on Ozymandias, created by sophie wallis on 28/04/2018.
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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.
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