In Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" the middle stanza is ironic compared to the
last stanza. The Stanza has a powerful
language used to describe a fallen Ozymandias. It leads use to think that there
use to stand a statue of someone with power. Describing what he did and how he
would be remember throughout history. Shelley then abruptly change the tone in the
last stanza. By phrasing the reality of this once powerful ruler. Now we see it
clearly how pride comes before a fall.
Shelley wrote "My name is Ozymandias, kings of
kings:" Shelly wanted to think that the statue that once stand belong to a
king. "Look on my work, ye Mighty and despair!" it clearly shows that
shelley wanted us to think that he will be remembered throughout history.
Shelly's last stanza
" Nothing beside remains, Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare"
quickly erase the idea of him being remember throughout
history by saying that the once standing tall statue is "wreck" (like
a ship, can't be fixed) in the vast desert sand
Khaira,
ReplyDeleteI've never seen Ozymandias divided into stanzas--it isn't in your book.
We do sometimes divide sonnets, based on the rhyme scheme, into an octave and a sextet, or into three quatrains and a couplet, but Shelley's rhyme scheme makes these divisions difficult.
You also seem to be having trouble with verb conjugation here, which makes your writing difficult to understand.
For your next essay, please be sure to use careful and correct grammar--visit the Writing Centre (SN 2053) for help.