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Mind Map by Heather Crosby, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Heather Crosby
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Description
Analysis of Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Adjectives
dramatic words
create an image
of power
- vast
- trunkless
- shattered
- colossal
- tells us of his power
- tells us of his power
- boundless
- bare
- lone
- level
- stretch
- a long time,
when he died it
was over
- a long time,
when he died it
was over
- vast
- Poem is about the loss of
power over the passage
of time. 'King of kings'
but all is left is a broken
statue
- 'Nothing beside
remains' everything
that was important to
Ozymandias is gone.
Short sentence to make
a point that things
don't last
- Ozymandias was
strong and powerful
king, he was cold and
people could not do
anything but obey
him
- 'Nothing beside
remains' everything
that was important to
Ozymandias is gone.
Short sentence to make
a point that things
don't last
- Form of the poem is
a sonnet (14 lines)
- 8 lines - an octet
- 6 lines - a sestet
- 8 lines - an octet
- The poem is in
iambic
pentameter
- Each line has 5
pairs of syllables
called feet
- The first syllable is
unstressed, the
second is stressed
- de, dum,
de, dum,
de dum
etc
- de, dum,
de, dum,
de dum
etc
- Each line has 5
pairs of syllables
called feet
- Vocabulary
- Antique - old
- Trunkless
- without a
body
- Visage - face
- Sneer -
cruel/smug
smile
- Pedestal - base
- Boundless -
vast,
endless
- Colossal
- very
large
- Decay -
waste, loss
of quality
- Antique - old
- Poetic techniques
- Alliteration
- lone, level;
cold,
command;
sands,
stretch
- Assonance
(repetition
of vowel
sounds) -
stone,
frown
- Irony - line 11
because he has
been dead for
thousands of
years, no-one
cares anymore
- Enjambment - no
punctuation, the
line follows from
one to the next
- Alliteration
- lone, level;
cold,
command;
sands,
stretch
