Ozymandias

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Flashcards on English Literature GCSE, created by Joshua Smith on 01/12/2018.
Joshua Smith
Flashcards by Joshua Smith, updated more than 1 year ago
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Shelley was a romantic poet. Romantic poets tried to capture intense experiences and to focus on the POWER of nature. Shelley disliked monarchies, absolute POWER and the oppression of normal people. CONTEXT for Ozymandias
POWER ARROGANCE PRIDE THEMES of Ozymandias
JUXTAPOSITION "survive" and "lifeless" oppose each other This suggests that although Ozymandias had lots of human POWER, this POWER has been lost Nature and time have the real POWER here, as they have destroyed the statue "which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things"
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