ozymandias !

title = ozymandias

• greek name for ramesses iii (egyptian)

• one word

first person

omniscient POV

irregular rhyme scheme and singular stanza

• extensive and hard rule under a dictator

blends petrachan and shakespearean sonnets

• impermanence of art and humanity

1st line

“I met a traveller from an antique land”

“and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command”

• wrinkles = loss of power + rulers rule with contempt

“the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed”

• ozymandias sees them as inferior

• and his heart feeds them nothing

“look on my works, ye mighty and despair “

• ironic as everything has withered away

last line

“the lone and level sands stretch far away”