Ozymandias - Mindmap
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- Created on: 18-02-19 12:58
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- Ozymandias
- Themes
- Irony
- statues are made to last
- his statue wasn't important
- Transcience
- short lived
- metaphor for political power
- Corruption
- imperative verb - controlling
- king of kings - omnipotent
- Irony
- Form
- 14 line sonnet
- first pats sets up frame narrative
- second part ironically talks about king and describes the desert
- Language
- Biblical Language
- "King of kings"
- God has punished ozymandias
- shows arrogance
- "King of kings"
- Powerful Phrases
- "Boundless and bare"
- "lone and level"
- Ceasura
- After "who said;"
- dramatises recalling from memory
- After "stands in the desert"
- reinforces idea of isolation
- After "who said;"
- Biblical Language
- Context
- Egyptian Pharoah, Ramesses II
- believed they were gods in form of humans
- Key Quotes
- "antique land"
- "two vast and trunkless legs of stone"
- "shattered visage lies"
- "sneer of cold command"
- "King of kings"
- Themes
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