we need to know: - That ‘Ozymandias’ is the Greek name for the Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses II. - That the Egyptian civilisation fell – conquered by the Romans. (This is why the poem is ironic: “Behold my works...and despair”. What works? “Nothing beside remains”.) – Hubris...
Thesis Statements Percy Shelley illustrates the influence of Romanticism on literature through the poem’s imagery and word choice. “Ozymandias” demonstrates the characteristics of a sublime Romantic poem. Thesis Statements In the poem “Ozymandias,” Percy Bysshe Shelley creates the image of a wrecke...
Structure The poem is an Italian sonnet, the fourteen line divided into eight lines and six lines, with two different rhyme patterns. This form is often chosen for love poetry, but in this case a theme of self-love leads only to thwarted ambition and decay. The iambic pentameter combines w...
making a joke about the subsequent fall of power. There is no pattern to the rhyme scheme, which reflects the natural speech tones of the narrator. The last lines of the poem become increasingly more fluid and the tone is more calm tone compared to the ...
Thesis Statements In the poem “Ozymandias,” Percy Bysshe Shelley creates the image of a wrecked sculpture to show that nature destroys all. In the poem “Ozymandias,” Percy Bysshe Shelley uses an allusion to the lost accomplishments of a king to convey the mortality of personal glory. ...