Ozymandias

• "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
• "Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies / whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and a sneer of cold command"
• "Round the decay of that colossal wreck / Boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away"
• "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"
• Form

  • Sonnet form allows Shelley to simultaneously mock Ozymandias' lack of love and respect as well as to ridicule his excessive hubris - results in infatuation with power
  • Blend of petrarchan and shakespearean sonnet shows how old ideas can change and evolve
  • Iambic pentameter is used as a constraint of oppression
  • Single stanza connotes tight control.