Ozymandias - Shelley

• What is the context?

  • Criticism of power and how it makes society corrupt
  • Hamartia of humanity lies in its insatiable desire for ultimate power
  • Romatic Poet - rejects authority, embraced nature
• Half sunk a shattered visage lies
• Sneer of cold command
• King of Kings
• Look on my works ye Mighty and despair!
• Nothing beside remains
• Lone and level sands stretch far away