Ozymandias

• Who wrote Ozymandias?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 'Shattered Visage'


  Ironic, it shows the power of time as this powerful human with all of his hubris was defeated by time.
• 'sneer of cold command'


  Shows the arrogance of the pharaoh and how he though he was more powerful than nature and time
• 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone' 


  Repetition of harsh consonants. Metaphor of 'trunk' and 'body' shows he was defeated and powerless
• 'Cold Command'


  alliteration, shows how the is emotionless and how ruthless and heartless he was in life.
• Semantic field of lifelessness (remains, wreak, decay)


  idea that no matter how powerful he was, power fades with time and he will be forgotten
• 'King of kings'


  repetition of kings shows his hubris and highlights how man will always be inferior to time.