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Mind Map by aneesha.maharaj, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by aneesha.maharaj
almost 11 years ago
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Ozymandias
- Big idea
- This poem refers to
the Egyptian king
Rameses ll and how
the only remaining
statue of him
illustrates how power
is merely temporary
and illusive.
- This poem refers to
the Egyptian king
Rameses ll and how
the only remaining
statue of him
illustrates how power
is merely temporary
and illusive.
- Themes
- Time
- Power
- Obsession
- Arrogance
- Art and beauty
- Time
- Form
- Rhyme scheme
- Does not follow
established
patterns of a
sonnet
- Could link to Shelley's
nonconformist desire to
rebel against perceived
conventions
- Could link to Shelley's
nonconformist desire to
rebel against perceived
conventions
- Does not follow
established
patterns of a
sonnet
- Rhyme scheme
- Structure
- Ceasura
- Highlights the
nothing surrounding
the broken statue
- Statue is
the
dominant
feature of
the
landscape
- Highlights the true
power of art and
beauty
- Highlights the true
power of art and
beauty
- Statue is
the
dominant
feature of
the
landscape
- Highlights the
nothing surrounding
the broken statue
- Two different voices
- The traveller
and narrator
- Allows the reader
to draw their own
conclusions about
the irony of the
image being
created
- Shelley not controlling
readers thoughts
- Parallels her belief
- Parallels her belief
- Shelley not controlling
readers thoughts
- Allows the reader
to draw their own
conclusions about
the irony of the
image being
created
- The traveller
and narrator
- Ceasura
- Language
- Exclamative sentance mood in
inscription
- Ironic as these words only survive
because of the sculptor
- Suggests that truth
and art outlast power
and greed
- The sculptors skill
is the only thing to
show for Rameses
work
- The sculptors skill
is the only thing to
show for Rameses
work
- Suggests that truth
and art outlast power
and greed
- Ironic as these words only survive
because of the sculptor
- Dichotomy
- 'colossal wreck'
- vast but destroyed
- Shows that the want
for control is powerful
but always leads to
destruction
- Shows that the want
for control is powerful
but always leads to
destruction
- vast but destroyed
- 'colossal wreck'
- Exclamative sentance mood in
inscription
- Imagery
- Alliteration
- Highlights the
barrenness of landscape
which Rameses want us
to 'look on'
- Could possibly
empahsise the power of
words as their sounds
can be repeated and last
unlike power
- Highlights the
barrenness of landscape
which Rameses want us
to 'look on'
- Adjectives-'two
vast and truckless
legs'
- Size of statue
links to size of his
ambition for
everlasting glory
- Set up dichotomy between
power and weakness
- Size of statue
links to size of his
ambition for
everlasting glory
- Alliteration
- Tone
- Poignant
- Mocking
- Poignant
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