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Analysis of Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Analysis of Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adjectives dramatic words create an image of power
vast
trunkless
shattered
colossal
tells us of his power
boundless
bare
lone
level
stretch
a long time, when he died it was over
Poem is about the loss of power over the passage of time. 'King of kings' but all is left is a broken statue
'Nothing beside remains' everything that was important to Ozymandias is gone. Short sentence to make a point that things don't last
Ozymandias was strong and powerful king, he was cold and people could not do anything but obey him
Form of the poem is a sonnet (14 lines)
8 lines - an octet
6 lines - a sestet
The poem is in iambic pentameter
Each line has 5 pairs of syllables called feet
The first syllable is unstressed, the second is stressed
de, dum, de, dum, de dum etc
Vocabulary
Antique - old
Trunkless - without a body
Visage - face
Sneer - cruel/smug smile
Pedestal - base
Boundless - vast, endless
Colossal - very large
Decay - waste, loss of quality
Poetic techniques
Alliteration - lone, level; cold, command; sands, stretch
Assonance (repetition of vowel sounds) - stone, frown
Irony - line 11 because he has been dead for thousands of years, no-one cares anymore
Enjambment - no punctuation, the line follows from one to the next
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