EAL Nexus Resource Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Flashcards Subject: English Age group: 15 - 16 Topic: GCSE poetry © Bell Educational Trust 2017 EAL Nexus – free downloadable teaching materials https://eal.britishcouncil.org/ This resource was originally developed by R Wilson and has been adapted for EAL Nexus.

I met a traveller from an antique land,  Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone  Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,  Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,  And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,  Tell that its sculptor well those passions read  Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,  The hand that mocked 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 decay  Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare  The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Ozymandias

Egypt

Rameses II

two vast and trunkless legs of stone

desert

shattered visage (face)

frown

sneer wrinkled lip

sculptor

pedestal

colossal wreck

‘my Works’ (some of Rameses II’s buildings)

lone and level sands

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Image attributions Ozimandias: http://alexzakil.deviantart.com/art/Ozymandias-305142145 By Alex Zakil creative commons permission to reuse. Egypt: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt.Giza.Sphinx.02.jpg By Most likely Hamish2k, the first uploader (Most likely Hamish2k, the first uploader) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons Egyptian flag: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Egypt.svg By Open Clip Art (From the Open Clip Art website.) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons Rameses II: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Closeup_Ramesses_II_Colossus.jpg By Than217 at English Wikipedia [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Legs of stone: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/93731235967956489/ Not able to find photographer – this photo appears to be in public domain as it is widely used on websites in connection with Ozymandias / Shelley Desert: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rub_al_Khali_002.JPG By Nepenthes (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons Shattered visage: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Egypt-Thebes_(pd).jpg By Brooklyn Museum (Egypt: Thebes Transfered by User:ComputerHotline) [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons Frown: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevendepolo/4605621230 By Stephen Depolo creative commons via Flikr Wrinkled lip / sneer: R. Wilson own photo Sculptor: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_French_sculptor_Victor_Nicolas.jpg By Vincent Nicolas, son of Victor Nicolas and father of Marcvjnicolas (Private collection of grandson) [CC BY-SA 2.0 fr (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/fr/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons Pedestal: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pedestal_(PSF).png By Pearson Scott Foresman [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Colossal wreck: https://www.flickr.com/photos/savingfutures/3263126455 Cropped version of image by Charlie Phillips creative commons, permission to use or adapt via Flikr Lone and level sands: https://www.flickr.com/photos/summonedbyfells/15160041855 By summonedbyfells creative commons via Flikr ‘My works’: Abu Simbel temples: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S10.08_Abu_Simbel,_image_9930.jpg By William Henry Goodyear, Joseph Hawkes, and John McKecknie (Brooklyn Museum) [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons Luxor temple: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_to_Luxor_Temple,_Egypt.JPG By MusikAnimal (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Ramesseum: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramesseum_07.JPG By Olaf Tausch (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Percy Bysshe Shelley: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Percy_Bysshe_Shelley_by_Alfred_Clint_crop.jpg After Amelia Curran [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons