OZYMANDIAS

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OZYMANDIAS by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Educated at Eton and then sent to Oxford
• Came under the influence of English Philosopher.
  William Godwin
• In 1818, left for Italy
• Drowned in the Bay of Spezia in 1822

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13th c BC Egyptian King, Ramses II, Greeks
called Ozymandias
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Identify the speakers of the lines taken from the
poem given below
ANSWERS
I met a traveller from an antique land
_____________
?
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
_____________
?
My name is Ozymandias king of kings
?
___________
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Answers

1. The Narrator
2. The Traveller
3. Ozymandias

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Literary Device used in the poem Alliteration c
old command (line 5) boundless and bare (line
13) lone and level (line 14) sands stretch
(line 14)
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Alliteration Repetition of initial
sounds in two adjacent words in a line of a poem
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Shelleys Sonnet
Follows the traditional structure 14 line
Italian sonnet
an opening octave (8 lines) presents a
conflict or dilemma
a sestet (6lines) offers some
resolution Octave rhyme scheme
ababbbcb Sestet rhyme scheme -
abacbc
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Sonnet A poem that has
14 lines, each containing 10 syllables, and a
fixed pattern of rhyme
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• MCQs
• Ozymandias got his huge statue erected
• To be seen by the posterity for being mighty and
  powerful
• He had great love for art
• People will remember him for his nobility
• He wanted to convey the message that life is
  momentary
• 2. The poem highlights the nature of Ozymandias.
  That he was
• cruel
• humble
• arrogant
• aggressive

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• 3. The sculptor who built the statue of
  Ozymandias could better
• understand his
• feelings
• words
• expression
• ambition
• 4. The backdrop of the poem is
• palace
• mountain
• desert
• wilderness

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• Answers
• to be seen by the posterity for being mighty and
  powerful
• aggressive
• feelings
• desert