ozymandias

• Who is the poet of ozymandias?

  Shelley
• what quotes show the decay of ozymandias's power?

  -Look on my works, ye mighty and despair!

  -wrinkled, shattered, frown, sink,sneer
• what technique is the quote "look on my works, ye mighty and despair"?

  The term "look" is a tone of command

  The terms "mighty" and "despair" is an oxymoron
• what technique is the quote "wrinkled, shattered, frown ,sink ,sneer"


  This quote is an semantic field emphasising the decay of oxymandias
• what is the analysis for the line "look on my works, ye mighty and despair"?

  The tone of command through the term "look" emphasises the fact that ozymandias still believes that he's capable of being king after being "boundless and bare". This further highlights his ignorance as ozymandias is able to understand that his time is up; he is nothing but just a barren, neglected statue
• what type of technique is "despair"

  an imperative verb
• what is the analysis for "wrinkled, shattered, frown, sink, sneer'?

  Shelley personifies the statue creating a semantic field of negativity around power with an end goal of showing the reader a detrimental impact of a lust for power.
• what does the term "hubris" mean?

  it means downfall.
• what quotes show ozymandias is insignificance of pride?

  -sneer of cold command
• using your own knowledge analyse, What does the quote "sneer of cold command" mean?

  Shelley uses the adjective "cold" to describe the statue. The personification suggests that despite all of oxymandias opulence, the only sentiment that survived from his reign are damaging. Also, Shelley contrasts human motions in ozymandias with nature. Human notions of pride and omnipotence are pale in comparison to natures transcendence further highlighting his ego that he believed is tyrannical power would withstand nature.
• what does the word tyrannical mean?

  exercising power in a cruel way
• what does detrimental mean?

  harmful
• what does opulence mean?

  great wealth and luxurious
• What quote in ozymandias represents the power of nature?

  "boundless and bare" and "lone and level"
• Analyse the quote "boundless and bare"

  The usage of the alliteration emphasises the mighty extent of nature. whereas the humans see the power eroding away by time serving only to show the futility of human power.
• why do you think Shelley sets the focus of the poem in a desert?

  Shelley does this because a desert is full of waste land, that is bankrupt and empty, explain ozymandias loneliness. To add, this could further be a way that Shelley is trying to portray and express her thoughts that nothing lasts forever and that everything comes to an end, however nature always lives
• what does barbaric mean?

  cruel
• "nothing beside remains"
• what does mean sempiternal?


  forever lasting