Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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- Ozymadias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Context
- born in 1792
- he was one of the major English romantic poets
- he liked philosophical poems and he was very influential
- he had a happy childhood and was educated at home and then at college
- he wrote the poem about the King- Rameses II
- he travelled to Italy and died
- he disapproved of the British monachy
- Emotions
- negative
- power and control
- disapproval
- bad opinions and this is evident in the poem
- past
- Form and Structure
- rhyme isn't regular
- there are some rhyming couplets
- there is also enjambment and caesura
- personal occurances
- recount
- focuses heavily on bad memories and nature
- Conflicts
- power of humans
- power of nature
- pride// image
- weakness of humans
- importance
- current identity and future identity
- Language
- positive and negative language
- "my name Is ozymandias, king of kings"
- "wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command"
- "colossal wreck"
- "nothing beside remains"
- "round the decay"
- things are getting ruined// sad language
- "stamped on these lifeless things
- Past and Present
- nature destroys evrything
- humans can build things but they get destroyed
- nothing ever lasts
- recent and past don't really mix
- Context
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