Ozymandius

• I met a traveler from an antique land

  desistence the author from the criticism
• half sunk, a shattered visage lies

  negative language, an attack on people in power]
• cold comand


  'c' sound brutal, harsh reflecting the controlling / powerful figures
• the hand that mocked them

  • mocking Ozymandias
  • made him look unlikeable
  • art lasts power doesn't
• king of kings


  • comparing himself to Jesus
  • arrogant power of man
  • sees himself as omnipotent
• look on my works


  • personal pronouns, selfish
• mighty and despair


  rule by fear
• nothing besides remains. Round the decay


  • all his power gone (its fleeting)
• wreck, boundless and bare


  power of time
• lone and level sands stretch far away

  • nature and time is ultimately more power.
• thinly valid criticism of the monarchy
• 'hybrid' sonnet


  doesn't conform to prove a point
• key themes


  • power of nature
  • power of time
  • abuse of power
  • mans power and futility of life
• volta on line 9

  signifies the decay of Ozymandias power