KEY - Ozymandias

Question 1

FORM

Answer 1

•Sonnet- 14 lines, love for himself and power.
•Rhyme scheme alternates, continually adapting and changing, lacking consistency (Transcient power, shows change of power over time)
•Shelley- loves freedom from tyranny.

Question 2

STRUCTURE

Answer 2

•Caesura “nothing beside remains.”
•Stop and reflect on end of ozys power, symbolises abrupt end of his legacy.
•Once a symbol of immense power now reduced to nothingness. Misguided notions of human power, finality and empty.
•Reader thinks abt past glory vs. emptiness, what is important?

Question 3

LANGUAGE

Answer 3

•Alliteration “cold command” and “king of kings”
•Spoken aloud in poetry, harsh consonents, abrupt sound effect, harsh nature of Ozys rule, frickatives.
•Oppressive power ozy possessed, cruelty.

Question 4

CONTEXT

Answer 4

•Shelley was a romantic poet, anti-monarchy and supported social justice.
•Disliked monarchy and institutions that represented power and authority.
•Historical ref (Pharoah Ramesses II) used throne name ozymandias. Remembered for his tyranny and millitary exploits, large empire over egypt, greedy, arrogant.