hawk roosting X ozymandias Flashcards
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OZYMANDIAS WEITTEN BY
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PERCY BYSHEE SHELLY
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they both believe they are above all others
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“king of kings”
“the hand that mocked them”
“look on my works”
3
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too much power leads to arrogance
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“ye mighty and despair!”
“nothing beside remains”
“of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
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nature is more powerful than man
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“on the sand half sunk”
“the lone and level sands stretch far away”
“two vast and trunk less legs of stone stand in the desert”
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PERCY BYSSHEE SHELLEY CONTEXT
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romantic poet
watched the arrival of the Egyptian statues
Ramesis II
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TED HUGHES CONTEXT
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1930-1988
RAISED IN YORKSHIRE
INNOCENT SAVEGERY OF ANIMALS
BEAUTY AND VIOLENCE OF NATURWL WORLD
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PERCY BYSSHEE SHELLEY CONTEXT
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1792-1822
ROMANTIC POET
PUBLISHED 1818
