Ozymandias.

Ozymandias.

1. Uses the theme of Romanticism

   • The theme of nature being all powerful compared to mankind and time is also greater and more powerful than man will ever be.

2. Context

   • Shelley disliked monarchies and used that to and the French revolution to influence his poem.

3. Form

   • Sonnet with a Volta at line 9 like a Petrarchan society but does not follow a regular rhyming scheme. Also uses Iambic Pentameter but is often disrupted.

4. Structure

   • Bulids up an image by turning focus and ends by focusing on the enormous desert showing the insignificance of the statue of the King lowering his status.

5. Irony

   • There is nothing left of the King but a broken down statue symbolising that he is slowly being forgotten by everyone showing that he was not a great as he believed.

6. Feelings and Attitudes.

   • Pride, Arrogance and Power of the King being destroyed by nature and the Romantics belief that nature is all powerful.