Ozymandias

• “King of kings”

  1. Arrogance - something so powerful was lost
  2. Imperative - thinks he is most powerful
  3. Repetition of kings - trying to show is power - best of the best
  4. Irony - supposedly to be powerful but now is forgotten
• “shattered, decay, colossal wreck “

  1. Humans powerless to humans
  2. Semantic field of destruction- broken into small pieces
  3. Oxymoron - total disaster and symbolic of a lost legacy
  4. Criticise human arrogance
  5. Melancholic - powerless to change fate
• “lone and level sands stretch far away”

  1. Transience of human power - forgotten
  2. Metaphor - vast emptiness - zooming out and show isolation of stature
  3. ‘lone’ - adjective and isolation of nothingness
  4. Research into science and nature - human arrogance Melancholic
  5. Doomed to be forgotten
• Semantic feild Ozymandias

  1. SETTING - sands, desert, antique
  2. CRUELTY - frown, mocked, snear
  3. EMPTINESS - lifeless, lone, boundless
  4. DAMAGE - decay, shattered, decay
• “I met as traveller from an antique land”
• “Two castles and trunkless legs of stone “
• “ The hand that kicked them and the heart that fed”