1. Ozymandias Objectives:
To explore the poem Ozymandias focusing on how Shelley has used poetic devices to portray the theme of power and conflict
To introduce the idea of MITSL and how it applies to your reading of a poem

2. What do you imagine this city to have been like in the past?
Describe in no more than 10 words what the city would have looked like.
What about this ruler?
Why might his statue be broken now?

3. Who holds more power?
Ruler
Sculptor

4. Ozymandias Quick Context
Ozymandias is a sonnet written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1817.
It is based on an Egyptian Pharaoh called Ramesses II.
This Pharaoh was a hugely powerful tyrant and ordered a statue of himself to be made. On this statue he had the words inscribed ‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ (closely translated).
He believed himself to be god-like and indestructible. But as we know, time is more powerful than even the strongest man.
Pride comes before a fall…

5. Listen to the poem underline words below
Words linked to Ozymandias' power
Words linked to Ozymandias having no power/being forgotten
Breaking bad trailer
OR use one in the folder

6. Language Words linked to Ozymandias' power
Words linked to Ozymandias having no power/being forgotten
'sneer'
'trunkless'
'cold command'
'shattered'
'passion'
'lifeless'
'King of kings'
'nothing'
'mighty'
'decay'
'despair'
'wreck'
'bare'
'lone'

7. I met a traveller from an antique land
Who is the speaker?
What does this suggest?
Who or what is being described here?
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".
why?
How has Ozymandias been described?
What is Shelley saying about the sculptor?
How is a pun used here?
Why is this ironic?

8. Break up class into groups, they focus on particular area of poem
Break up class into groups, they focus on particular area of poem. Feed back and share ideas either by doing a messenger or class feedback etc.

10. Bounce time
One person starts with the question: “ How does Shelley use poetic devices to show power and conflict in Ozymandias?” Once they have answered you bounce it to another student and pose another question – keep going until you run out of ideas and questions

11. Getting it down
You have 7 minutes to write a PEAL paragraph answering the question: “ How does Shelley use poetic devices to show power and conflict in Ozymandias?” Focus on either one of ITSL

12. Compare the ways poets present ideas about power in ‘Ozymandias’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and Conflict’
Ozymandias
Meaning (title)
Imagery
Tone
Structure
Language

13. Compare the ways poets present ideas about power in ‘Ozymandias’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and Conflict’

14. 30 min response
Using your information from your table or venn diagram write a response to the question: Compare the ways poets present ideas about power in ‘Ozymandias’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and Conflict’

15. Success criteria Is there:
An introduction which includes both poems outlining their meaning and their titles?
A section on imagery which compares both poems in relation to power using quotes?
A section on tone which compares both poems in relation to power using quotes?
A section on structure which compares both poems in relation to power using quotes?
A section on language which compares both poems in relation to power using quotes?