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Description
Mind Map by princessscout, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by princessscout
over 11 years ago
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Ozymandias
- Story line
- The narrator meets a
traveller who tells him
about a statue standing in
the middle of the desert
- It's a statue of a powerful
king who used to rule
here
- His face is proud and
arrogantly boasts about
how great he is in an
inscription in the base
of the statue
- However the statue has
crumbled away and only
ruins remain
- The statue ruins are all that remains of the king.
- The narrator meets a
traveller who tells him
about a statue standing in
the middle of the desert
- Form and structure
- It's a sonnet with an
unusual rhyme
scheme
- unusual rhyme scheme
suggests things are out of
balance
- The narrator builds up an
image by focusing on different
parts of it the statue.
- It's a second hand account which
distances the reader further from the
dead king
- Poem ends by describing an
enourmous desert helping to
show insignificance of the
statue
- Uses iambic pentameter
and enjambment so that
the poem flows like
natural speech
- It's a sonnet with an
unusual rhyme
scheme
- Language
- IRONY
- Nothing left to show for the rulers arrogant boasting
- Ruined statue is a metaphor for all human life
- All human achievements are
insignificant because our lives are
so short compared with with the
universe
- All human achievements are
insignificant because our lives are
so short compared with with the
universe
- Desert represents the universe
which stretches on and exists
long after our lives and rulers
arrogance has been destroyed
- Nothing left to show for the rulers arrogant boasting
- CONTRAST
- theres a contrast between the
arrogant king who thought he
was the mightiest ruler and the
powerful destruction of the
statue over time
- Human achievements
like cities statues are all
temporary - contrasts
with the desert which is
lifeless but enduring
- theres a contrast between the
arrogant king who thought he
was the mightiest ruler and the
powerful destruction of the
statue over time
- ANGRY LANGUAGE
- tyranny of the ruler is suggested
through aggresive language
- tyranny of the ruler is suggested
through aggresive language
- IRONY
- My ideas
- Antique land can be used to represent
the way the land lives on long after each
civilisation is destroyed
- I think it has been used by the ruler
as he believes nothing to remain in
comparison to his rule as he is the
top of everything
- It could be used now as a form
of irony as nothing besides the
ruins remains in the vast desert
- It could be used now as a form
of irony as nothing besides the
ruins remains in the vast desert
- The alliteration in the last 2 lines
emphasises the feeling of empty
space in the surrounding desert
- The poem suggests
that he was a cruel
ruler and that he
was not liked much
as he was arrogant
and thought more
abut himself than
the others
- Antique land can be used to represent
the way the land lives on long after each
civilisation is destroyed
- Feelings and Attitudes
- POWER
- human life is insignificant
compared to the passing of
time
- time is so powerful
- time can destroy civilisations and
make human achievement appear
temporary
- human life is insignificant
compared to the passing of
time
- ARROGANCE
- the inscription shows he believed he was most powerful ruler in the land
- nobody else could compete with him
- ge thought he was better than those he ruled
- the inscription shows he believed he was most powerful ruler in the land
- PRIDE
- the ruler was proud of what he achieved
- he called on others to
admire what he did
- the ruler was proud of what he achieved
- POWER
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