Poetry- Ozymandias

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THE SCULPTOR IS WAS VERY DETAILED AND WAS ABOUT THE WORK AND UNDERSTOOD HOW ARROGANT THE COMMANDER WAS BY SHOWING IT IN HIS WORK "WHICH YET SURVIVED, STAMPED ON THESE LIFELESS THINGS" SHOW THAT HE WAS NEGLECTED AND IGNORED, NO ONE REMEMBERED HIM AFTER HE DIED 'SURVIVED' AND 'LIFELESS' JUXTAPOSE EACH OTHER (OXYMORON), WHICH SHOWS THE DIFFERENCE IN HOW HE WAS PORTRAYED AS A STRONG MERCILESS LEADER TO THEN BE LEFT IN THE DUST WITH NO EMPIRE AND FORGOTTEN BY HIS PEOPLE. "KING OF KINGS" THIS IS REPETITION WHICH EMPHASISES WHO PROUDLY HE THINKS OF HIMSELF AND THINKS THAT HE IS ALL POWERFUL AND ABOVE EVERYONE, THIS QUOTE IS ALSO A BIBLICAL REFERENCE, THIS HINTS THAT OZYMANDIAS THINKS THAT HE IS ABOVE AND MORE POWERFUL THAN GOD HIMSELF. "LOOK ON MY WORKS" SHOWING OFF HOW POWERFUL HE IS TO HAVE A STATUE AND EMPIRE OF HIS OWN BUT HE NOW HAS NOTHING TO SHOW ANYONE NOW. 'LOOK' IS AN IMPERATIVE DEMONSTRATING HOW DEMANDING AND OPPRESSIVE HE WAS AS A LEADER "YE, MIGHTY AND DESPAIR" THE M IN 'MIGHTY' IS A CAPITAL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SENTENCE TO SHOW OFF HOW PROUD HE IS OF THE POWER E HAS. 'DESPAIR' HE IS TRYING TO INTIMIDATE OTHERS "NOTHING BESIDES REMAINS" IRONIC AS IN THE LINE ABOVE HE WANTED TO SHOW OFF HIS WORKS AND ALL HIS EMPIRE BUT ALL OF IT IS LOST BECAUSE OF WEATHER "COLOSSAL WRECK" JUXTAPOSES EVERYTHING AS HE THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD LIVE FOREVER BUT WAS CRUMBLED INTO PIECES AND BURIED IN THE SAND. THE ADJECTIVE 'COLOSSAL' FURTHER EMPHASISES HIS MAJOR DOWNFALL "BOUNDLESS AND BARE" THIS ALLITERATION FURTHERMORE ENFORCES THE FACT THAT OZYMANDIAS HAS LOST ALL OF HIS POWER AND HAS BEEN REDUCED TO SAND "THE LONE LEVEL SANDS STRETCHED FAR AWAY" SHOWS IRONY AS HE PORTRAYED HIMSELF AS SOMEONE MIGHTY, YET HE WAS FORGOTTEN BY THE REST OF THE WORLD AND ALL BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER AND AIR, IMPLYING THAT EVERYONE IS THE SAME IN THE END AS THE ARE 'LEVEL' AND WE CANNOT BEAT NATURE, ALL PEOPLE WILL FALL. CONTEXT .OZYMANDIAS WAS AN EGYPTIAN RULER/ PHARAOH .HE WAS AN OPPRESSIVE TYRANT . TOOK CREDIT FOR OTHER WORKS AND HAD A LOT OF SLAVES WORKING FOR HIM . HIS REAL NAME IS RAMESSES II . HE WAS SEEN AS PART OF THE GOD HORUS' LINE OF ETERNAL LIFE .PERCY SHELLY WAS AGAINST ROYALIST AND DID NOT BELIEVE THEY WERE SUPERIOR .SHELLY IS A ROMANTIC POET COMPARISONS .LONDON .TISSUE MY LAST DUCHESS .THE EMIGREE .CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY STRUCTURE . SONNET - (THIS IS A TYPE OF POEM WITH 14 LINES AND USUALLY USED FOR LOVE POEMS) THIS FURTHER SHOWS HOW MUCH HE LOVES HIMSELF AND IS SELF-OBSESSED . RHYME SCHEME IS BROKEN WHICH SUGGESTS HIS BROKEN POWER . 3 SPEAKERS . IAMBIC PETAMETRE WRITER'S MESSAGE .ALL HUMANS ARE THE SAME .ALL HUMANS WILL FALL .NATURE HAS ULTIMATE POWER .POWER DELUDES PEOPLE .TO SHOW HOW OPPRESSIVE LEADERS THINK .HUMAN LIFE IS FRAGILE AND WEAK