![]() He approaches the "mighty" to look at his works and depression. The words that Ozymandias had cut on his sculpture are now ironic. Shelley’s famous sonnet "Ozymandias" is generally perceived as a rumination on the role of craftsmanship and art be that as it may, but when juxtaposed with his "A Defense of Poetry" and A Philosophical View of Reform, "Ozymandias" turns into a model exemplary of the symbolic work structure.Ĭombining components of both the Shakespearean and the Petrarchan sonnet customs, Shelley presents for his readers how one should look at and examine preexisting structures and proposes individual agency as an option in contrast to traditional notions of power. In "Ozymandias," we are left with pictures of brokenness and void. Here Imagery is portrayal utilizing the five senses of sight, taste, hearing, touch, and smell. The destruction or void one feels in contemplating Ozymandias and his once powerful realm, his mighty kingdom emerges through Shelley's symbolism and imagery. Percy Bysshe Shelley seizes the power of verse and poetry to not only communicate feelings and emotions, but in addition to share, stimulate and promote personal belief systems and ideology. ![]() Shelley illuminates the transience of Ozymandias' power he had not achieved the legacy he believed he would and instead his works have been reduced to ' Nothing' a pronoun that highlights how forgotten Ozymandias' works have become.Shelley also shows the power of nature over man with cyclical natural imagery, the poem begins in an ' antique land' and 'desert' and ends with the alliterative line 'the lone and level sands stretch far away', Shelley, a romantic poet, highlights how fragile human power is as it can easily be ' shattered' both by the power of time and nature.“Nothing besides remains. This is further highlighted by the semantic field of destruction, 'shattered visage, lifelesss, colossal Wreck" (The capitalisation of the word Wreck works as a transferred epithet -> Ozymandias' identity has gone from being regal to being a wreck).Shelley also uses juxtaposition in the lines "Look on my Works, ye Mighty and despair!/ Nothing beside remains. ' King of kings' also alludes to divine power as Ozymandias believed himself to be as or more omnipotent than God.Shelley then uses the technique of irony to highlight how Ozymandias' power has diminished over time reducing him to "trunkless legs of stone". ![]() Shelley makes usage of cacophonous alliteration to present the power Ozymandias once had, 'cold command' and 'King of Kings', these suggest Ozymandias was a stern and authoritative ruler. Then we pick out any literary devices Shelley has used that link to power. How does this link to power? Shelley does not use the traditional sonnet form, this could reflect how Ozymandias' power has not survived in a traditional generational sense, the usage of a regular rhyme scheme also highlights how time has passed. Shelley uses a 14 line sonnet in iambic pentameter and a regular rhyme scheme. Firstly we want to highlight any interesting structural devices in the poem and link them to power.
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