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Ozymandias

Shan RamananVince LeuterioDowling-4th1/21/2015Slide2

OzymandiasWritten by  Percy Bysshe ShelleyParaphrase:

The speaker subjects Ramesses II (Ozymandias) to a moral lesson about time and its effect on excessive pride. She embodies Ramesses’ mortality in the form of a statue to represent his dying legacy and his ironic lack of power.Slide3

Time Period and Style“Ozymandias

” is a sonnet, a fourteen-line poem metered in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is somewhat unusual for a sonnet of this era; it does not fit a conventional Petrarchan pattern, but instead interlinks the octave (a term for the first eight lines of a sonnet) with the sestet (a term for the last six lines), by gradually replacing old rhymes with new ones in the form ABABACDCEDEFEF.Slide4

ThemePowerful figures including kings, should not be prideful no matter how powerful they think they are. Ultimately, in the end, time consumes all and no earthly power will surpass fate and times pleasing. Everyone dies including people of power.Slide5

ThesisTime destroys the prideful and leaves their legacies in the dust. Ozymandias, once a powerful yet prideful leader, considered himself to be the "king of kings". His statue, the last remnant of his legacy, is fragmented and buried in the sand, indicating that

Ozymandias' pride was his ultimate downfall.Slide6

Topic SentencesThe speaker emphasizes the kings downfall by using vivid imagery to describe the fragmented nature of the statue in the poem.

The speaker emphasizes the longevity of the statue in contrast to the king himself to further highlight the kings downfall and the deterioration of his legacy.The author highlights the beauty of Egyptian art by emphasizing the prominent features of the statue.Slide7

ToneTone: The overall tone of the poem is that of a mocking one. Throughout the poem the writer often distances himself from the king calling the land he Is setting foot on "antique land". This further shows the distance between the Kings faded ideology and that of the present time of the writer. Another tone would be sarcastic/ironic because the poet compares what once was, to the current era, demonstrating how time prevailed over mortality and human engineering.Slide8

ConnotationLine 1 – The antique land could allude to Ancient EgyptLine 2 – Vivid imagery depicts a large statue

Line 3 - The statue lies in the desert Line 4 - Shattered visage symbolizes a broken identity, or a fragmented legacyLine 5 - The statue is prideful and arrogantLine 6 - The statue was masterfully createdLine 7 - The statue itself outlived the man who created it and the man it depicts - art is everlastingSlide9

Connotation continuedLine 8 - "pedestal" the use of diction depicts how Ozymandius thinks of himself.

Line 9 - "king of kings" – Ozymandias viewed himself as a god.Lines 9 - 10 Ozymandias’ engraved quotation on the statue shows how highly he thinks of himselfLines 11 - 14 Irony - although what is written may have been valid, nature obviously out lived human creation and mortality.Slide10

SHIFTThe shift occurs in line 9, as the words of the statue come alive to emphasize the excessive pride of

Ozymandias. The impression of a "sneer of cold command" is confirmed; one can visualize the mocking attitude that Ozymandias himself would have proclaimed. The shift in line 9 changes the focus of the poem from the description of the statue to the hubris of Ozymandias.Slide11

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MLA Citation"Shelley's Poems By Percy Bysshe Shelley Summary and Analysis Ozymandias."Ozymandias

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