ozymandius- percey shelley

• "from an antique land" signifies a sense of scale, and gives adjective gives a mysterious tone
• "2 vast and trunkless legs of stone" -image of decy- surreal - language of scale
• "shattered visage" -dramatic modifier - adjective shattered show complete destruction/ loss of power
• "sneer of cold command" -how he was a cruel dictator -theme of power -social superiority -sneer signifies his abuse of power
• "pedestal" -idolised -power -literal plinth (contrast between supercilious qualities and physical exercise of power)
• "King of kings" -egotistical -biblical language (comparing himself to a God) -hubristic -ironic -hyperbolic language
• "nothing beside remains" -alliteration -repetition -emphasis on the fact that nothing is left except ruins -the king's legacy has been destroyed by time
• "boundless and bare" -adverbial phrase -simile -metaphor -desolate landscape -no life or growth -barrenness
• "lone and level sands stretch far away" -personification -desolate landscape -isolation -no life or activity -time has eroded everything
• "colossal wreck" -metaphor -ruinous state -symbolises the destruction of Ozymandias' empire
• themes : -power -art -nature -transience -society
• form and structure: shakespear petrach hybrid -embedded narrative and anonymous reader add to mystical quality -adds distance
• language: -biblical - semantic field of art - language of scale
• tone: hubristic -ironic -pathetic
• context : -romantic poet/poem means shelley had an interest in politics, art, power and veiled criticisms/ ozymandius based on Ramesses II
• Ozymandias is a poem about the transient nature of human life and how all things are temporary.