Ozymandias

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 He was born in Worthing, West Sussex, England.
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He was raised in a wealthy family that provided the

best education.

He studied at Eton and then entered the University College

of Oxford, but, from there was expelled in 1811, , because of
the publication of his treatise entitled: The need for atheism.

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From 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley received a clear influence from
William Godwin because he maintained an epistolary and personal
relationship for years
The influence of Godwin is expressed in the
impulse of ethical rationalism, the establishment of
utopian proposals, the vindication of the passions
and the principle of the primacy of feelings.

The breakdown of Shelley’s friendship with

Godwin occurred when he decided, unhappy
in his marriage, to marry Mary, the 16-year-
old daughter of Godwin.

In 1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned in the

Gulf of Spezia. Mary Shelley later claimed the
boat was never seaworthy.
 Percy Bysshe Shelley, is one of the great
representatives of English romanticism

Romanticism is an artistic, literary and cultural

movement that began in England and Germany at the
end of the 18th century

Shelley belongs to a second generation of romantic

poets, along with Byron and Keats

Shelley's poetry sings the beauty and power of

love

Shelley "attributes“ the imagination

 CONSCIENCE

Shelley's
thinking WILL

REALITY
 Exaltation of the self

Melancholy and disappointment

THEME
Authenticity of emotions

Wild and hostile nature

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- Shelley wrote “Ozymandias” in 1817.

- The title of “Ozymandias” refers to an

alternate name of the ancient Egyptian
pharaoh Ramses II.
 Is a
sonnet.

FORM & It have

Petrarchan
sonnet
RHYME iambic
SCHEME
rhythm .

Shakespearean
sonnet
I met a traveler from an antique land, A

Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone B

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, A

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, B

OCTAVE
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, A

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read C

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, D

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed; C

And on the pedestal, these words appear: E

My name is Ozymandias King of Kings; D

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! E

SESTET
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay F

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare E

The lone and level sands stretch far away.” F

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B
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B
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¡GRACIAS!
 “OZYMANDIAS” Symbols

Sand The Statue

It’s a physical representation of the

It is a symbol for nature’s might of human political institutions.
power and also for time
itself. how comparatively fragile human
political institutions actually are in the
face of both time and nature's might.

symbolizes the power of art.

MAN VERSUS NATURE

As a Romantic poet, Shelley was deeply respectful of

nature and skeptical of humanity’s attempts to dominate it

“Ozymandias” is not simply a warning about the

transience of political power, but also an assertion of
humanity’s impotence compared to the natural world.

The encroaching sand described in the poem suggests

that nature has steadily overtaken a once great
civilizations and buried it, just as nature will one day
reclaim everything humanity has built