Ozzy: Shelley

• Ozymandias: Percy Shelley

  Form: Sonnet - loves himself and power
• Ozymandias: Percy Shelley

  "a shattered visage lies"

  adjective - beyond repairable because nature did it, undermining power
• Ozymandias: Percy Shelley

  "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:"

  • description of the Pharoah himself
  • arrogance - declaring himself a god
  • symbolic of king - worshipping power
  • hyperbole
  • juxtaposition
• Ozymandias: Percy Shelley

  "Nothing besides remains."

  • volta - turning point, life can turn in an instant
  • caesura - emphasis on nothing
  • juxtaposition of kings to decay