Ozymandias

Question 1

Who wrote it, key message, when

Answer 1

Percy Bysshe Shelly, 1817, romantic poet wrote Ozymandias to critisize corruption of man, attacks the leaders of Britain

Question 2

What type of poem

Answer 2

Sonnet with volats at line 9

Question 3

What does rhyme scheme represent

Answer 3

No regular rhyme scheme shoes Shelly’s unwillingness to follow conventions and uncontolable power of nature

Question 4

Opening line represents

Answer 4

‘I met a traveller from an antique land’
Seperates the reader further from Ozymandias
‘Antique’ shows how long ago

Question 5

What does what Ozymandias writes on his pedastol

Answer 5

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’

Question 6

“King of Kings’ represents:

Answer 6

Biblical reference, how Jesus refered to himslef.
Believes he is a God, machiavelism

Question 7

“Look on my works” represents:

Answer 7

“Look” imperitive shows his demanding nature
Ironic as his works have been destroyed

Question 8

Enphasises the vastness of the statue yet it has been destroyed

Answer 8

“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”

Question 9

Poet ends poem enphasising the emptiness of the desert

Answer 9

“Sands strech far away”

Question 10

Use of enjalment

Answer 10

Shows how the poem is destroyed like statue.
Also shows uncontrolable like nature