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What is a summary of Ozymadias .

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  • The speaker tells conversation with traveller bout old broken statue ind esert .
  • travel descires two two legs n powerful looking disdained face .
  • statue pedestal says ozymdnas ‘King of kings’ telling other ings to looka t his might work in ‘despair’ ending described bareness of desert and broken statue .
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key aspects of poem . ozymandis

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-use of traveller to descire the statue , distnces the reader from poem a’s origianl speaker . Supporting the poem’samcoemt,atter. reproted speech amkes the views seem to be expressed as universal .

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more on ozymadnias ey aspects

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usign irony conrtats arrongce fo te inscirption with actual physcial state of the tatue hsowig how worldy opwer @crumbles and fades @

-its in a sonnet - it shows power of transicnce , highight ozymadnias delusional sense of pwoer and supremacy .

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ozymandias setting

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  • shelley depics the desert as a barren wastelands , symobolisng poointelessness of gret empires .
  • another way is that the framing device of the poem is efectibely all reported speech ‘a traveller’ ozymandias ing of kings , is further reduced a story being passed around in chance encouner .
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key echinique irony

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Shelley uses irony to enbale the reader to share his criticism of Ozymandias and pehrpas also of other app pwoerful regimes . Despie Ozyamdnias statemnt of about his ‘works’ nothign beside him remains which makes the boastful coment ironic , highlighitg how wrong he was to mke those claims .
Shelly also creates irony hrough juxtapostion , by placing ozyymandias’ grand claims so close to ‘nothging beside remains’ thi srtatemnt revelas king’s baosts to be irioinc and inaccruacy amkes him look ridiculous .

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shellh createss a semanitc field of deteoriottion by

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using adjectives like ‘trunkless’ and ‘shattered ‘ from the beginnign shows the decay of Ozymandias power nd the civillisation he ruled was transcient

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‘wrinkeled lip cold comand’

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assonace and cold command alliteration forgerforudns pharohs cruelty as autocraticness of ozyandias ..
reflects his tryannical leadership

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nothing beside remiasn VOLTA .

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Ironic structure wise palcing this immediatle ater Ozymadnias declaring his power shows its metiness nd trasncifecne . also shifts focus from statue to deset. Shellu disrupsts trafitonal sonnet , replicating breakdown of Ozymadnias pwoer .

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Last line ozyymandias

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allitation creates harmionious image of infinitee nature conrasting with pharoahs brtual and hsort lilf e simiaelry ‘which yet surbive’ shows paassion of the art surviign but the actual empire does not shows lif is tempaort and art i forever . Aslo angr as sculpotor put in hardowkr for the statue but now noting .

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more on ozymanidas

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could also be a criticism of the church @king of kings@ which is a biblical refrecne , shows hat izmanidas sees hiself as god like but also shelly is sayng pwoer od church won;t last .

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What to compare Ozymandias too ?

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‘My last Duchess’ also presens ideas baout social control , noth Ozymadnias and Duke proudly protect their power .
Ozymandias uses a distanced third perosn speaker , while my las duchfes is a drmaic monologue peoiin the Duke’s first hand .