Ozymandias

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Mind Map on Ozymandias, created by Emily Pond0874 on 16/05/2015.
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Ozymandias
  1. Poet
    1. Percy Bysshe shelly
      1. Married to Mary Shelly- author of Frankenstien
      2. Sybnopisis
        1. Written on the exhibition statue in the British Museum. A man talks about a traveler he has met. The traveller tells him about a statue found in the desert. This statue is one of Rameses ii. It describes the legs and head found just laying there, broken and decayed. Dipleated much like the actual former pharoh of eygpt. The poem is spoken by an unnamed narator.
        2. Themes
          1. Mortality
            1. Insignificance
              1. Hubris
                1. Arrogance
                  1. Time
                    1. Decay
                    2. Synaptic Fireworks
                      1. "vast and trunkless legs of stone"
                        1. Imense, grand and hollow
                        2. "sheer of cold command"
                          1. arrogant, superior and distaneful
                          2. "passions read"
                            1. stone and mesurable
                            2. "stanmp'd on these lifeless things"
                              1. stone, nothing and art
                              2. "look on my works, ye mighty, and despair"
                                1. No work to look down on anymore
                              3. Form and Structure
                                1. Alliteration
                                  1. "lone and level"
                                    1. "boundless and bare"
                                    2. Sonnet
                                      1. old traditional ways of writing poems
                                        1. 10 sylables and 5 beats
                                        2. Iambic pentameter
                                          1. regular sound
                                        3. can be compared to
                                          1. The River God
                                            1. On a portrait of a deaf man
                                              1. Medusa
                                                1. My Last Dutchess
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