Power and Conflict Ozymandias

Power and Conflict Ozymandias

1. Percy Bysshe Shelley

   • Atheist
   • romantic poet
   • supported French/ American reverloutions
   • wrote Ozymandias in 1817
   • 1792 - 1822

2. title Ozymandias

   • suggests power
   • serious subject matter
   • formal
   • distinctive
     • stands out
   • mysterious
   • eastern
     • exsotic

3. themes

   • mocking of ozymandias
   • pitty for ozymandias
   • authority
   • aggression
   • hubris
   • pomposity of tyrants
   • immobility of art

4. "i met a traveller from a antique land"

   • "antique"
     • old/ valuable
     • locates it in the past

5. "two vast and trunkless legs of stone"

   • lifeless
   • cold
   • detached

6. "whose frown and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command"

   • "cold command"
     • sculpture catchers the evil of the ruler
     • authority/ aggression
     • sculpture carefully observes the ruler

7. "lifeless things"

8. "my name is ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye mighty, and despair"

   • boasting
   • justoposition
     • nothing lasts
     • sand consumes
     • time passes
   • irony

9. "colossal wreck, boundless and bare"

   • nothing is left of his work
     • nothing left of his reign
   • ruined
     • destroyed
   • blank
     • empty