Ozymandias

Links to:

Weather

Power

Loss of power

Political conflict

Great for power of people and power of art

Poet:

• Writes romantics
• Wealthy family

Context:

• King George 1st
• Poet hated military conflicts and an oppressive government
• Romanticism, dislike of urban life, Use of ordinary everyday language
• Ramses II pharaoh in Egypt,- ruler who lead many battles British museum gaining fragments of Ramses Statue.

Poem Techniques:

• Enjambment: used in first line, natural conversation, "antique Land

Who said: "

• Written in sonnet form, love poems, 14 lines, ABBA ABBA  rhyme scheme,
• Plosive consonants make…