Shelley's Poem "Ozymandias"

2. The "antique land" would be Egypt, where Ozymandias ruled and where his statue remains in the sand. The traveller describes a ruin seen in the desert and the inscription on that ruin.

3. My name is Ozymandias; I am the greatest of all rulers. Other rulers should look on my works and despair.

1. The situational irony in this poem is that all that remains of the mighty Ozymandias is this broken statue, and that this statue was intended to create fear and now only creates wonder because of its ruined condition. The inscription is a verbal irony, for the words are egotistical but are on a broken statue that no longer makes other rulers fear.

2. The use of the word "lifeless" in line 7 applies not just to the statue because it is of stone but to the ruins because the life they once represented is gone and the fear they once created no longer can be expected, either. It is ironic because a statue is always lifeless, but a ruined statue is even more lifeless, no longer being a fair representation of its subject. "Mocked" re

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on simple actions possible only because they left school, and these are the sort of things young people think are cool--they stay out late, they play pool, they think of themselves as sinners, they drink, they listen to music. The expressions used are all short and to the point, in keeping with the fact that these are uneducated people who use cool, jazzy expressions to prove they are hip and happy, though they are neither. 3. The last line is a deliberate shift in tone from all that has gone before, though the line follows clearly from the list of things these poolplayers do. Each of the short statements before present the cool things they can do, but there is a realization that this is not a real life and that it has no future. It leads only to death. There are eight We's, which may mean that each of the seven gives a statement of what they do and how cool they are before all seven agree that they will die soon and have no future. Language, Form, Structure 1. The rhythm has a jazz feel to it, with a syncopated rhythm because of the way each statement after the first one carries over from one line to the next, from one stanza to the next. The short lines also have three accented syllables each, giving the whole the sense
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Approximate Pages = 15 (250 words per page)

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