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Flashcards by Caroline Eckersley, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Caroline Eckersley
about 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Who wrote 'Ozymandias'? | Percy Shelley |
| Who is Ozymamdias? | Ramases II, a great Egyptian pharaoh. |
| What group of poets did the poet belong to? | The Romantics |
| What is the 'antique land' where the poem is set? | Egypt |
| Fill in the blanks: 'Two _____ and trunkless legs of stone' | 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone' |
| Fill in the blanks: 'Near them, on the sand, ______ ________, a _______ visage lies' | 'Near them, on the sand, half sunk a shattered visage lies' |
| A quote that describes the statue's facial expression.... | 'sneer of cold command' |
| Ozymandias is described as ruling with 'cold command'. What does this tell us about his use of power? | ruthless uncaring tyrranical no concern for his people |
| What is the inscription on the statue? | 'My name is Ozymandias, King of King! Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!' |
| As a Romantic, what was Shelley's attitude to human power and the power of nature? | He believed that the power of nature was the only true power. Human power was unfair. |
| Fill in the blanks: 'Round the decay of that colossal wreck, ______ and ____' | 'Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare' |
| What does the statue symbolise? | Human power and authority |
| The desert is 'boundless'. What does this mean and what does it suggest about the power of nature? | The desert goes on for ever. It is infinite and permanent like the power of nature. |
| What was Shelley's atttitude to the monarchy? | He was a Republican. He did not believe in the monarchy and thought inherited power was wrong. |
| What revolution did Shelley support? Why? | The French Revolution because the French people were trying to overthrow the aristrocracy. |
| Why did Shelley use a description of an Egyptian statue to put across his ideas abiht power? | At the time Shelley was writing, the public were fascinated by artifacts and ruins from Egypt being exhibited in London. Shelley used this to capture their imagination. |
| How is human power and authority presented? | ruthless unfair tyrranical.... yet temporary and always defeated by nature. |
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