Ozymandias

In the poem Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias” there are several different sound devices portrayed. The author demonstrates use of rhyme and meter. In the beginning of the poem the author used rhyming words to give a description of the mans journey through the dessert, and informing that he found a statue. It states, " Two vast and trunk less legs of stone stand in the dessert." Although, the statue is destroyed and seems to be smashed, considering the 2 legs. Towards the end of the poem the author

Are you ever afraid you will not leave your mark on society? This is a fear of many and has been for centuries. Though nobody may have been more afraid of being forgotten than Ozmandias. Percy Shelley in his poem Ozymandias, uses imagery, diction, and irony to show the leveling power of time. Percy Shelley uses imagery to prove the leveling power of time multiple times throughout the poem. The first example comes in the second line when the storyteller quotes the traveler, “Two vast and trunkless

In the poem, “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, a traveler notices a statue of what they believe to be a king, and it is, for the most part, destroyed. The traveler, later, notices a quote that basically says that king Ozymandias believes he is the most powerful king in the world. Throughout the poem, it shows the reader that nothing lasts forever, though humans may believe it will. Ozymandias believed that he was the best king in the world, however, the narrator of the poem states, “Two vast

In my opinion, the theme of the poem "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley is all about power or the lack thereof. While interpreting this poem I noticed a recurring idea of how powerful people feel invincible/immortal yet after all the power was stripped from them they realized that they were/are just human. They realized that having people tremble at the thought of them, having people do whatever they wanted, and just having total control over the human race was just temporary and it never lasts

Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias pensively portrays Ramses ll as an enduring force throughout the ages. Weaving together past and present by placing temple ruins at the nucleus of the text, the author records for posterity the King’s immortality while brazenly alluding to his malfeasance as a flawed human. Referring to the Pharaoh by his Greek moniker, Shelley assures the reader of his familiarity with the subject, setting the stage for his lyrical narrative. The author’s command of visual

The Petrarchan sonnets “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley and “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” by John Milton both consider a man’s legacy after death. However, both poems talk about a man’s legacy from very different perspective and come to their own conclusions. In “Ozymandias”, a traveler describes a broken statue of King Ozymandias (the Greek name for the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II) and the barren ruins surrounding the statue. Ozymandias believes that his legacy will last forever. Through

civilization in order to stave off the inevitable decay of time. The earth is littered with the ruins of antiquity that serve as nothing more than remnants of once powerful tyrants who sought in vain to immortalize their existence. In his sonnet "Ozymandias", Percy Bysshe Shelley depicts this struggle with a condemnatory eye. When all things come to an end, Shelley argues that art and culture are what truly represent civilization, not the legacy of those who commissioned the work. While the tyrannous

Ozymandias is the Greek name for a pharaoh who ruled over ancient Egypt (Napierkowski and Ruby 172). However, in the poem “Ozymandias” by P.B. Shelley, the poem is based on the Egyptian pharaoh, shown through the point of view of a traveler looking down at the land, as the traveler describes the debris and rubble which lays behind. Although the duration of time in which the land has been destroyed is not stated directly, one can infer that Ozymandias ruled a powerful kingdom in Egypt. In the poem

In “She Walks in Beauty”, George Gordon (Lord Byron) was writing about a beautiful woman. In the poem, Byron used a lot of flowery words to emphasis her beauty and her innocence. Examples of lines referencing her beauty include “Which waves in every raven tress, / Or softly lightens o’er her face”, which describes how her black hair brushes against her face (Gordon, “She Walks” lines 9-10). Byron speaks of her innocence in the last line, “A heart whose love is innocent!” (18). This poem appears to

or deteriorate an individual’s outlook upon themselves, others and society as a whole. This concept will be explored and exemplified through William Shakepeare’s The Tempest, Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Percy Shelley’s Ozymandias. Both The Tempest and The Perks of Being a Wallflower feature a discovery of a new world as the initial, most apparent discovery. Although the worlds are vastly different, both are what enable the characters of their respective text to make transformations