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POETRY FOR “IMAGINARY WORLDS”

POETRY FOR “IMAGINARY WORLDS”. Let’s imagine. “ Ozymandias ” is an extended metaphor. It is an extended metaphor for the ephemeral nature of political power. More notes on “ Ozymandias ”.

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POETRY FOR “IMAGINARY WORLDS”

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  1. POETRY FOR “IMAGINARY WORLDS” Let’s imagine.........

  2. “Ozymandias” is an extended metaphor • It is an extended metaphor for the ephemeral nature of political power.

  3. More notes on “Ozymandias” • The traveller tells the author that the sculptor of the statue understood well the passions of the statue’s subject, a man (Ozymandias aka Rameses) who sneered with contempt for those weaker than himself, yet fed his people because of something in his heart (“The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed”).

  4. The irony in the poem • The one-great king’s proud boast “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!“ has been disproved by time. His works have crumbled and disappeared, his civilisation has gone, all has been turned to dust by the indiscriminate power of history. The statue is an example of one man’s hubris and a powerful statement about the insignificance of human beings to the passage of time.

  5. Poetic techniques in “Ozymandias”

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