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    Placement English Literature 1/10/15 Poetry Response 1: “Ozymandias” The anonymity‚ form‚ diction‚ and irony used in the poemOzymandias‚" by Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ conveys to the reader the useless endeavor of pursuing human vanity. Shelley’s lack of dialogue and anonymity along with the unraveling form in which the poem is written crafts a poignant and ironic message that reveals the human folly of the pursuit for vanity. Shelley provides perceptive proof that the quest for human immortality

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    In the poemOzymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley the speaker‚ Percy him self or somebody else explains a meeting with someone who has traveled to place where ancient civilization once existed. From the title “Ozymandias” tell the location of the poem‚ which is Egypt. The traveler told the speaker about a place the traveler visit during his travels. He told the speaker about a place in the desert‚ in the middle of the desert lay a fragmented of a broken apart statue but the resemble of a man face

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    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 shattered visage lies‚ whose frown‚ And wrinkled lip‚ and sneer of cold command‚ Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive‚ stamped on these lifeless things‚ The

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    OZYMANDIAS Percy Bysshe Shelly Question 1 I think Ozymandias was a proud‚ unpleasant‚ boastful‚ haughty‚ powerful‚ provocative man who was an absolute ruler and in spite of all this‚ he was a great man. Ozymandias was proud because he refers to himself as “King of Kings” in line ten which reads‚ “My name is OzymandiasKing of Kings.” This shows his pride because he elevates himself above all the other kings by suggesting that he is superior to all the kings that lived in his time. Ozymandias

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    The consequences of time and nature on power and art in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias”. The poemOzymandias”‚ written by Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ is a sonnet of fourteen lines‚ metered in iambic pentameter‚ which explores many issues and possible interpretations. It talks about the disappearance of powerful civilisations and leaders. Everything and everyone dies someday‚ except good art‚ could be a one-sentence summary of the poem. It explores the way that nature can create or destroy with the

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    Analysis of “Ozymandias” “Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley is a fourteen-line sonnet poem that is metered in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme of the poem is not the traditional Italian Petrarchan form but it is similar‚ using the form ABACADEDFEGHGH. The name of the poem is symbolic of a famous pharaoh by the name of Ramses who was known as Ozymandias to the Greeks‚ in which the statue in the poem is representative of. The poem starts in the first person‚ “I” but then immediately switches

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    Ozymandias Submitted by : Brooke Hutt Submitted to: Mr. MacDonald Submitted on: June 3‚ 2014 "Ozymandias" is a fourteen-line sonnet. It is not a traditional one‚ however. Although it is neither an Italian sonnet nor a Shakespearean sonnet‚ the rhyming scheme and style resemble an Italian sonnet more. The speaker it the poem is learning from a traveler about a giant‚ ruined statue that lay broken and eroded in the desert. The title of the poem informs

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    by the impersonal‚ indiscriminate‚ destructive power of history. The poem remains primarily an ironic and compelling critique of Ozymandias and other rulers like him‚ but it is also a striking meditation on time-bound humanity. In this poem Shelley attempts to highlight the true value of language and poetry. Ozymandias makes the point that language has an immortality which other art forms do not. It is for this reason that Shelley also asserted ’all

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    In contrast‚ ‘Ozymandias’ a sonnet‚ describes how an ancient king was once a powerful leader but today his work has faded by the destructive power of history which implies the insignificance of human beings over a passage of time. Whereas in ‘Poem of Thirty-Nine’ the daughter continues her life through the lessons her father taught her. ‘Ozymandias’ is about a meeting with the poet and a “traveller” who describes the story of King Ozymandias’s “shattered” statue. The traveller explains how the

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    Paying attention to subject matter and style‚ discuss the effectiveness of “Ozymandias” as a poem. An artist paints with colors; a poet uses lines and stanzas‚ and just as we must look deeply at a picture‚ our cursory reading of a poem cannot dictate our final opinion about the effectiveness of a poem. Accordingly‚ an in-depth reading of “Ozymandias‚” would make it possible for one to determine the effectiveness of subject matter while also seizing the opportunity to appreciate its style. At the

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