PoetryL.O: To use inference and discussion to begin analysing a poem.

Thursday, 6th February 2014

Power and control Remember for each poem we analyse

the focus must continue to be on this theme.

How does the poet present this theme? What forms of power and control are

being discussed?

Pride comes before a fall Discuss this statement.

What does it mean? How could it relate to the poem?

Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them on the sand,Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frownAnd wrinkled lip and sneer of cold commandTell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed;And on the pedestal these words appear:‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away.  PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/poetrycharactervoice/ozymandiasact.shtml

Pride comes before a fall

How does it relate?

Statements - True or false  The poem explores power and status. The poet admires Ozymandias. Ozymandias was once a proud, tyrannical ruler. The poem suggests we have all the time in the world. The poem is about legacies and what we leave behind after

we die. The poet suggests that pride comes before a fall. The poem is about time and nature and how man cannot

conquer either. Shelley suggests that art and language will outlast humans

and other legacies of power. The reader is left to imagine the sculptor as well as

Ozymandias’ character. It is ironic that it is the sculptor’s legacy that will last and not

Ozymandias’ power.

Write down the ones you think are true Find quotations to back up the points.

Homework Use SMILE to begin analysing the poem.

Annotate the poem for features.

You will be using these as a starting point for analysis in next lesson.

Monday 10th February 2014