Quotes

• ‘I met a traveller from an antique land’

  3rd person perspective, Shelley is separating himself from the poem due to the views 
• ‘Two vast and trunkless legs of stone’

  statue destroyed, use to be huge which showed power 
• ‘A shattered visage’

  face/ head of stone, broken into pieces, no one cares, memories are getting eroded 
• ‘Sneer of cold command’

  emotionless/ unfeeling, looking down on them, alliteration: empathise tone, command = orders, harsh, plosives tone 
• ‘The hand that mocked them’

  Ozymandias was a tyrant which mocked his people, artist made fun of him 
• ‘Pedestal’

  force people to look up at him 
• ‘Ye mighty, and despair!’ 


  even powerful should be afraid of his kingdom/ power, no one will be as powerful as him 
• ‘King of Kings’ 


  believes himself above others and has full power of the world, wants others to be afraid 
• ‘Nothing beside remains’

  all his works reduced to nothing, time is more powerful than him and will always win 
• ‘The lone and level sands stretch far away’

  nothing there, nothing is permeant, power and wealth aren’t important as well all meet the same fate, meant to be humbling, sand buries all traces of his existence/ city