Ozymandias

• Ozymandias is about a narrator who meets a traveller who tells him about a ruined statue of a king who ruled over a past civilisation however the statue has fallen down and crumbled away so only the ruins remain.
• Ozymandias explores the themes of Power and pride
• Ozymandias was written by Shelley
• Ozymandias is in a sonnet form
• Ozymandias was written after an explorer found a statue in the desert
• 'Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown' - Caesura, Enjambment, Violent Verb
• 'King of kings ... collossal wreck, boundless and bare' - Hyperbole, Caesura, Repetition, Alliteration
• 'Look on my works, / ye mighty and despair!' - Metaphor, Irony
• The Rhyme scheme is changing just like power is transitory - it doesn't last forever - it changes over time
• 'King of kings' - Reference to 1 Timothy - Where Ozymandias is refering to himself as god
• 'Cold command ... king of kings' - Alliteration - Violent and aggressive, showing a dislike towards the monarchy
• You could link Ozymandias to 'Extract from The Prelude', 'My last Duchess', 'Kamikaze', 'Tissue'