1. Half-sunk, a shatter’d visage lies

2. Big Question
How does Shelley present the relationship between power and the passing of time in ‘Ozymandias’?
Amination
Ozymandias

5. Power
Intimidation
Ruin
Time
Celebration
Danger
Transience
Traveller
Insignificance
Decay
Antique
Influence

6. Literacy Task
Ozymandias was a militery conqueror and a great builder, but Shelleys sonnet illustrates how the achievements of even the mitiest tyrants are destroyed by time All that is left of this once all-powerful figure is a ruined statue in a lonley dessert.
Source: British Library

7. Literacy Task
Ozymandias was a military conqueror and a great builder, but Shelley’s sonnet illustrates how the achievements of even the mightiest tyrants are destroyed by time. All that is left of this once all-powerful figure is a ruined statue in a lonely desert.
Source: British Library

8. Big Question
How does Shelley present the relationship between power and the passing of time in ‘Ozymandias’?

9. Big Question
How does Shelley present the relationship between power and the passing of time in ‘Ozymandias’?
Verb
Metaphor
Allusion
The ruins of a once ‘vast’ statue highlights the transient nature of power. Although Ozymandias was once the self-proclaimed ‘king of kings’, nothing remains of his empire. Shelley highlights the emptiness of the surrounding desert by describing the sands as ‘lone and level’…