Ozymandias

• Overview

  About a powerful man named Ozymandias who builds a statue in the desert which is later broken down by nature.
• Quotes-Power of nature

  "Half Sunk"-Imagery

  "Boundless and bare"-Alliteration
• Quotes-Power of humans


  "Look on my works"-Imperative command

  "My name is Ozymandias, King of kings"-Repetition
• Structure+Form


  Sonnet(love poem)

  Lack of consistency(enjambment)
• Comparison-Power of nature

  Prelude

  Both characters make mistakes by underestimating the power of nature.

  Ozymandias is one stanza showing the short life of humans and the prelude is long showing how nature lives on forever.
• Comparison-Power of humans

  My last duchess

  Both the duke and ozymandias are powerful men who are controlling.

  in ozymandias he wants to control his legacy by making a statue of himself whereas in MLD the duke controls the duchess.