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“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.