LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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all things, both great and small, will perish
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man is mortal, art immortal
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imagination is stronger than fact
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history repeats
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Detailed explanation-1: -The major theme behind “Ozymandias” is that all power is temporary, no matter how prideful or tyrannical a ruler is. Ramesses II was one of the ancient world’s most powerful rulers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ozymandias is first and foremost a metaphor for the ephemeral nature of political power, and in that sense the poem is Shelley’s most outstanding political sonnet, trading the specific rage of a poem like “England in 1819 ” for the crushing impersonal metaphor of the statue.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poem is a sonnet and is written in iambic pentameter. Some suggest that the sonnet form has been used to mirror Ozymandias’ egotistical love of himself. The first eight lines (octave) the statue is described in its different parts to shows its deterioration over time.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Transience of Power. One of Shelley’s most famous works, “Ozymandias” describes the ruins of an ancient king’s statue in a foreign desert. The Power of Art. “Ozymandias” famously describes a ruined statue of an ancient king in an empty desert. Man Versus Nature.