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Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry Packet – Sonnets

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry Packet – Sonnets. Consider the above poem. 1. Identify the poem’s core paradox. 2. What is the irony of this paradox? 3. Explain how and why Shelley puts distance between the reader and Ozymandias .

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Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry Packet – Sonnets

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  1. Ozymandiasby Percy Bysshe ShelleyPoetry Packet – Sonnets Consider the above poem. 1. Identify the poem’s core paradox. 2. What is the irony of this paradox? 3. Explain how and why Shelley puts distance between the reader and Ozymandias. 4. How does this structure support/contradict the fundamental message. 5. In one sentence identify this message.

  2. Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822

  3. The Land of “Oz” Some Observations: • Paradox? • Secondary paradox?

  4. Four Observations • Distance • Reflected in modern music/lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bJMxhvVf0o&feature=PlayList&p=F71BE2F69313A378&index=6 3. The Emperor’s Club 4. The competition…

  5. "On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below.” In Egypts sandy silence, all alone,Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desert knows. "I am great Ozymandias," saith the stone, "The King of kings: this mighty city shows The wonders of my hand." The city's gone! Naught but the leg remaining to disclose The sight of that forgotten Babylon. We wonder, and some hunter may express Wonder like ours, when through the wilderness Where London stood, holding the wolf in chase, He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess What wonderful, but unrecorded, race Once dwelt in that annihilated place. - Horace Smith

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