Ozymandias comparisons (Anna)

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Differences:

{{Misassignment of power to humans, not god{{

<<Misassignment of power to leaders and individuals, not time/nature/art<<

similarities:

Shelley sees loss of power as inevitable and natural, suggesting art will prevail, whereas Dharkar tries to offer solutions and a new way to treat power.

Both show a loss or undermining towards human power.

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and

[[My Last Duchess[[

Similarities:

• Both poems suggest overarchingly that humanity’s pride/power is unfounded.
• {{In Ozymandias, the poet shows a loss of power over time and in competition with nature, as the characters are surrounded by desert which is a symbol of nature and time.{{
• [[Similarly, My Last Duchess shows the duke’s power constantly undermined by the enjambment, caesura and single stanza.[[
• In both poems, the origin of pride is love for oneself and one’s power.
• {{This is expressed in Ozymandias through the form of the sonnet, as it is a love poem to show the king’s love for himself.{{
• [[In My Last Duchess, the Duke loves his ‘900 year old name’ and feels entitled to authority and control because of it.[[

Differences:

• Whilst both poems suggest that pride and power leads to oppression, the subjects of the oppression are different in each poem.
• [[In My Last Duchess, the duchess is shown as a symbol of oppression. “Then all smiles stopped.”[[
• {{Whereas in Ozymandias, the statue is used as a symbol for all institutes or figures of power - “cold command”= cruel and harsh oppression.{{

{{Ozymandias{{

and

}}The Prelude}}

Similarities:

• Both poems display nature as more powerful than mankind
• {{In Ozymandias, human power is shown as intrinsically weak and transient and lost to time and nature.{{
• }}Meanwhile, in The Prelude, failed attempts of mankind to overpower and manipulate a force beyond its control are displayed.}}
• The theme of pride is key in both, it being the cause of the speaker’s eventual fall.
• They both link to Milton’s paradise lost in the sense of the “Fall of man” and also to epic poetry in general. This links to the irony of statue in the desert in the poem ozymandias.

Differences:

• Whilst both poets explore how pride is unfounded because human power is inferior to the power of nature, they present his in different ways.
• }}In the prelude the overwhelming power of nature leads to the speaker’s loss of eloquence and how he becomes unable to define his world.}}
• {{In ozymandias, this power is conveyed through the symbolism of the desert and time.{{