Information Cards

• Summary

  -Narrator meets a traveller

  -The statue boasts about life

  -Statue has crumbled away
• Poet's Messages

  -humbling power of nature > man

  -challenging authoritarian rule

  -hubris = downfall and power temporary
• Concepts

  -Power of nature

  -Fall from power

  -Hubris

  -Man's insignificance
• Structure

  -sonnet -> ironic or his love for himself or love of karma
• Context

  -statue = symbol of power

  -Pharos and absolute power
• Comparison

  My last duches as they both have a misuse of power