ozymandias

• "half sunk, a shattered visage lies"
• "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings"
• "Nothing beside remains … Of that colossal wreck… The low level sands...”
• “And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command”
• “The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;”
• What is the form?

  Ozymandias is a sonnet
• How is Ozymandias a sonnet?

  Ozymandias loves himself and the idea of power
• What is the structure of "nothing beside remains."?

  It is a volta (it is when the whole poem changes from Ozymandias' confidence to the destruction of the statue) and it is a caesura (there is a pause in the middle of the line)
• What is the context for Ozymandias (patriarchy)?

  Ozymandias as a man believed he must be a powerful character
• What is the context for Ozymandias (freud and id)?

  Ozymandias was controlled by his Id, he ultimately challenged God
• What techniques are in "my name is ozymandias, king of kings"


  Symbolic, hyperbole, juxtaposition
• What techniques are in "shattered visage lies"?


  Adjective, denotation