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Poetry Group: Ms. Shelly Miss Castellano Turn to Page _____ “Ozymandias” By Percy Shelley Percy Shelley An Interesting Life Born August 4, 1792 Stood in line to inherit not only his grandfather’s considerable estate but also a seat in Parliament Published a pamphlet titled “The Necessity of Atheism," which got him expelled from Oxford This left him in dire financial straits At age nineteen, Shelley eloped to Scotland with sixteen-yearold Harriet Westbrook Percy Shelly Just Loves Love Shelley also became enamored of Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughter, Mary (the author of Frankenstein), and in 1814 they eloped to Europe Note: no divorce from current wife, Harriet In November 1814 Harriet Shelley bore a son, and in February 1815 Mary Godwin gave birth prematurely to a child who died two weeks later. Percy Shelley His Life Could be a Soap Opera 1816 Harriet Shelley apparently committed suicide. Three weeks, Shelley and Mary Godwin officially were married. Shelley lost custody of his two children by Harriet because of his adherence to the notion of free love. On July 8, 1822, shortly before his thirtieth birthday, Shelley was drowned in a storm while attempting to sail from Leghorn to La Spezia, Italy, in his schooner, the Don Juan. “Ozymandias” I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. Literary Term 1 SONNET 14 Lines Iambic Pentameter Odd mix of Shakespearian and Petrarchan styles ABABACDCEDEFEF “Ozymandias” Literary Term 2 IMAGERY Visual “Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,” (line 4). This line shows that the legs are half sunk in the sand, and there is a statue of face near it. “Nothing beside remains. Round the decay” (line 12). This line shows that there is no anything around the statue. “Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare” (line 13). This line shows that the statue is very big, but now it is just ruins. Reader Speaker Traveller Ozymandias Literary Device 3 SPEAKER Framed Poem beginning with “I” So to speak, we hear about it from someone who heard about it from someone who has seen it. Thus the ancient king is rendered even less commanding.** First person, Second person, Sculptor, Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. Thus the ancient king is rendered even less commanding POWER HONOR POWER is FLEETING HONOR is INTERPERATIVE He HAD power. Ozymandias was in charge of what we can infer as a great and massive area. Statues are a visual of honor – something to outlast time in memory of the person Now he has NOTHING… Only the etchings on a decaying statue… Description of statue makes it seem like the “honor” was actually fear. He was honored “Cold command,” “frown,” … Points of Interest The transience of political leaders and regimes • "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: (line 10). This line tells that Ozymandias is a king. Ozymandias was a king of Egypt (Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II). Now, he is not a king anymore because he hasn’t any palace or castle and loyal people. He said that he is a king, but it is not true that he is a king. It becomes an irony because he is not a king anymore. • Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" (line 11). This line tells that Ozymandias’s works will be everlasting, and it shows that his works is the best of the best. Ozymandias is too arrogant to say that the other works will despair, but it is not true, because now Ozymandias’s works are just ruins. From the lines above, we know that there was a kingdom that had a king named Ozymandias, but now it’s just a “colossal wreck” / ruins. “Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,” (line 4). The words “half sunk” show that the statue doesn’t give any maintenance anymore. No one cares with the statue. “Nothing beside remains. Round the decay” (line 12). The word “remains” shows that there was a kingdom there, but the kingdom is gone by the time. The time is also change the Ozymandias’s works to be decayed things. “Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare” (line 13). The words “colossal wreck” show that now the ozymandias’s work including his big statue are just ruins and they are lied in the sands. Points of Interest The symbol of ruins is shown by the word “trunkless” that means the statue is without a torso (body). It means that the statue is not complete anymore. the erosive processes of time “Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone” (line 2). Walter White from “Breaking Bad” Class Interaction Create your OWN visual of Ozymandias… THE TWIST = make it represent a modern person! Work Cited Abrams, M.H. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. London: Norton & Company, 1998. Print. Oxford. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 7th Edition. London: Oxford, 2006. Print Shmoop Editorial Team. "Destruction in Ozymandias." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Jan. 2016. Multiple Choice Questions The “hand” and “heart” referred to in line 8 belong to: All the following themes appear in the poem EXCEPT: A. The Narrator A. The power of the artist B. The Sculptor B. The inevitability of decay C. Ozymandias C. The downfall of ignorance D. The Traveler D. The transience of politics This is what you will do.