Ozymandias.

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Ozymandias Analysis with context and background information.
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Ozymandias.
  1. Uses the theme of Romanticism
    1. The theme of nature being all powerful compared to mankind and time is also greater and more powerful than man will ever be.
    2. Context
      1. Shelley disliked monarchies and used that to and the French revolution to influence his poem.
      2. Form
        1. Sonnet with a Volta at line 9 like a Petrarchan society but does not follow a regular rhyming scheme. Also uses Iambic Pentameter but is often disrupted.
        2. Structure
          1. Bulids up an image by turning focus and ends by focusing on the enormous desert showing the insignificance of the statue of the King lowering his status.
          2. Irony
            1. There is nothing left of the King but a broken down statue symbolising that he is slowly being forgotten by everyone showing that he was not a great as he believed.
            2. Feelings and Attitudes.
              1. Pride, Arrogance and Power of the King being destroyed by nature and the Romantics belief that nature is all powerful.
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