Essays Tagged: "Shattered Visage"
Explain the "irony" in the poem, "Ozymandias." by Percy Blythe Shelly
ol: "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.(lines 2-5)" The con ... with maintaining his memory, instead of destroying it.There is a great deal of irony in Ozymandias' shattered visage on the sand. The king who so terrified those he commanded for so long no longer has ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"Ozymandias" Themes
esert, the remains of a vast statue. Only the legs remained standing. The trunk was missing and the shattered face lay half buried in the sand, he told that the sculptor had skillfully captured the 'f ... he told that the sculptor had skillfully captured the 'frown, the wrinkled lip, and sneer' on the 'shattered visage' through 'passions well read.' The importance of this traveler is that of symbolism ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry