Commentary on the poem “Ozymandias King of Egypt” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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English

 

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August 25, 2015

 

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I think that the rhyme scheme represents the difference between the way the king thought future was going to be and the reality, his future was out of order as well as the rhyme. This sonnet deals with a number of important themes like power, difference between the reality and hopes and the changes in the world which never leave anything the same way it was...
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It has a lot of irony in it, it sounds like the poet is mocking Ozymandias who was used to be powerful and confident, who thought himself unconquerable and who was in fact conquered and stayed there, with his head lying on the sand and with his shame shown to everyone who passes by. In this poem there are three voices; the author who starts the story as a first person: “I met a traveller …”, the traveller who actually tells the whole story: “two vast and trunkless legs of stone…” and Ozymandias who calls himself “king of kings” and fills this poem with irony...
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