Percy Bysshe Shelly

1. Percy Bysshe Shelly A Romantic Poet of The19th Century.

2. Obituary on Percy Percy Bysshe Shelley was born august 4, 1792 • The eldest son of Timothy and Elizabeth Shelley, with one brother and four sisters, he stood in line to inherit not only his grandfather's considerable estate but also a seat in Parliament. • At nineteen, Shelley eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, sixteen.

3. Obituary Con. • Percy also married Mary Godwin, the author of Frankenstein • In 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced Laon and Cyntha, which was withdrew because of the attacks on religion • His first publication was a gothic novel, Zastrozzi in 1810,

4. Shelley: Major Works • 1816-17: “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”; “Mont Blanc” • 1819: Completes Prometheus Unbound; The Cenci; The Mask of Anarchy about the Peterloo Massacre; A Philosophical View of Reform; Ode to the West Wind. • 1820-22: To a Sky-Lark; Adonais (an elegy for Keats.) Defence of Poetry (published posthumously in 1840); The Triumph of Life. • 1822: Drowns at sea at the age of 29.

5. Welcome to the land of symbols, imagery, and wordplay. Before you travel any further, please know that there may be some thorny academic terminology ahead. Never fear we are here

6. 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings

7. Short Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelly • I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:And on the pedestal these words appear::Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away

8. Ozymandiasby Percy Bysshe Shelley • I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a .visage liesshattered

9. whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:And on the pedestal these words appear • .

10. Ozymandias • :'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away

11. Destruction • The statue that inspired the poem was partially destroyed, and the poem frequently reminds us that the statue is in ruins. The dilapidated state of the statue symbolizes not only the erosive processes of time, but also the transience of political leaders and regimes.

12. imagery & similes:- • Line 2: The "legs" of the statue don't have a torso ("trunkless"). • Line 4: The statue's head is "shatter'd" and partly buried in the sand. • Line 11: The inscription implores the viewer to "look on" Ozymandias's "works." One of those "works" is the statue described in the poem, and it's only a pair of legs and a "shatter'd" head. • Line 12-13: The statue is described as in a state of "decay" and as a "colossal wreck."

13. Line 13-14: We're assuming this statue wasn't always in the middle of nowhere – there must have been some kind of temple or pyramid nearby. Not anymore; the area around the statue is "bare" and the desert is "lone," or empty. The traveler calls our attention to the barrenness of the desert through the extensive use of alliteration (beginning multiple words with the same letter): "boundless and bare," "lone and level," "sands stretch."

14. Tone: the speaker tone was irony of situation Theme: *transienc*pride *art of culture * man & the natural world

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