Ozymandias
Published on Nov 20, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
HOW CAN WE AS INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCE OPPRESSION?
LIMIT YOUR ANSWER TO A MAXIMUM OF 4 LINES
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OZYMANDIAS
- Sonnet (how many lines ?)
- Written in 1817, published in 1818
- Writing contest
- The name Ozymandias refers to Ramses II
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THEMES
- Arrogance and power
- Permanence of true art
- Relationship between artist and the subject that is being represented
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OZYMANDIAS (LINES 1-5)
- 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 shattered visage lies, whose frown
- And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
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OZYMANDIAS (LINES 6-9)
- Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
- Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
- The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
- And on the pedestal these words appear:
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OZYMANDIAS (LINES 10-14)
- `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".
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WHAT MESSAGE YOU THINK SHELLEY WANTED TO CONVEY WITH HIS POEM?
WRITE YOUR ANSWER IN A MAXIMUM OF 10 LINES OR 100 WORDS
There is not one correct answer.
Use you OWN words and support your response.
Use you OWN words and support your response.
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