hey guys welcome to give your grades a glow up today we're going to be looking at a program from the power and conflict cluster the poem I want to look at is Ozymandias by Percy Shelley Aussie manzius is a poem about a traveler who tells a really interesting story basically he was in the desert and he saw a broken statue a random pair of legs and it's got no head no body nearby in the sand there's like a broken face which is like half sunk he discovers that that statue actually belongs to King Ozymandias who was a really arrogant and cruel dictator who wanted to show off his great Empire but plot twist the Empire hadn't lasted nor has he all there is now is a Barren empty desert and his broken statue that no one ever looked after or visited let's read the poem I've met a traveler 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 visit lies who's frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command tell by its sculptor well those passions red 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 Aussie mandius 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 level sand stretch far away okay now in our unseen poetry lesson we learn how to select three juicy quotations that means quotations that have an interesting language device interesting words in there and then mind map them to say as many interesting things as possible that's essentially what we're going to do with all of our Anthology poems if you create three mind maps for each of your 15 Anthology poems you'll be ready for whatever poem comes up in your exams so let's have a look and try and do that with Ozymandias too fast and trunkless legs of Stone Stand in the desert vast means big trunkless means it's only the legs there's no body near them on the sand half sunk a shattered visit that's the broken face bit of the statue frown and wrinkled lip and snare of cold command I think this actually could potentially be one of my key quotes so let's mind map it was he a nice person from that quotation no he's frowning so clearly he's not very pleasant the pejoratives which means negative words frown wrinkles near Cold make him seem really hostile his expression seems really unfriendly sneer also shows he enjoys mocking people cold makes him seem really callous he lacks empathy he has no warmth command connotes a sense of authority he's like a dictator he believes everyone should follow his instructions and he's obsessed with his power a megalomaniac someone who loves power there's actually guttural alliteration in cold command which sounds like choking of the throat it shows perhaps how he suffocated people under his Reign and abused those he had control over now for those of you who are aiming for a grade nine there's also repetition of the word and in this quotation do you remember what the funky words of that is polysynditin Shelley's use of polysynditin here could perhaps convey the ongoing nature of ozymandias's abuse and the prolonged negative effect he had on his people let's talk about structure because I think we can even bring instruction into this quotation if you missed the questions you should ask yourself about structure and poetry you can go back to the Unseen poetry lesson and have a look at that so in this quotation there is actually sejora there's punctuation in the line and there's enchantment the line runs onto like the sentence runs on to the next line so I need to decide which one I'm going to talk about and in this case I'm going to pick this Azura and I'm going to say this is yora slows down the pace of the line which represents how long people had to endure suffering so I'm linking my structural analysis to the meaning of the poem not just saying this makes the reader want to read on or this creates tension this has an effect I'm not being vague I'm being specific okay moving on tell that it's sculptor well those passions red which yet survive that line basically just means the person the sculptor like the sculptor who made this statue made it seem so realistic it's almost like you can still feel those negative emotions when you look at the statue that you would have got from him in real life so this being super interesting it says on the pedestal these words appear a pedestal is like the blocky bit at the bottom of the statue that it's standing on Aussie mandias could have written any words on this pedestal so people for years would remember who he was and what he stood for if I had a statue let's think about this what would I want my pedestal to say thank you to my eyebrow lady I'm not funny that's the problem alternatively darling you're on loudspeaker if I had a pedestal what would I write on it something from Legally Blonde this is what people are going to remember you for for generations to come but he chooses to say this my name is Aussie mandius King of Kings look on my Works ye Mighty and despair there's lots to unpick there so let's go with the possessive pronoun my my makes him seem selfish and greedy then he actually refers to himself in third person he says Ozymandias he declares his name which makes him seem really narcissistic like he loved himself and really arrogant he believes his name holds such great power and value then there's repetition where it says King of Kings he ain't just the king he's a king of kings he wants everyone to be aware of his superiority he gives himself this elevated status this reference of King of Kings also alludes to the Bible because Jesus was referred to as king of kings so Aussie mandis is giving himself like a god-like status where he goes on to say look on my works we can do a bit of analysis there and say it's an imperative command look look at my work he wants people to see the Empire that he has built and feel inferior as a result he's basically saying like look at what I've done and look I'm better than you is what he's trying to say and then there's an exclamation mark if there's a punctuation mark I'm going to talk about it so that exclamation mark kind of emphasizes this image of aggression as if he was really frightening do you know what's really interesting now that I'm thinking about it it's really interesting that he speaks in present tense he says my name is like he believes his power is going to last forever he will last forever but will he the next line says nothing beside remains there's a sudden change in tone it's like my name is Aussie nothing beside remains that Sudden Change of tone is called bait loss and Shelley intentionally employs bathos to show how futile pointless the words on the pedestal are he is now nothing but a colossal wreck the lone and level sand stretch far away let's mind map colossal Rec do you remember what that's called when there's two opposite words next to each other it's an oxymoron colossal connote something that is huge and wreck something that is destroyed and having those two words right next to each other emphasizes how powerful he was yet how quickly he lost that power and was destroyed he and his Empire are nothing more than a broken statue on a Barren desert right now it's half sung but soon it will completely disappear I can probably reinforce that structurally because we like to reinforce structurally by saying the poem is written as one short stanza cementing how short-lived and brief his power was loan and level is alliteration loan and level and that creates an echo effect like you know that kind of like echoing sound which shows how the desert is empty no one came to look after his statue no one cared because he abused his power sand stretch the sibilance creates this really peaceful tone to show how peaceful it's been since he's died so there's a juxtaposition between the arrogance of Ozymandias and the loss the demise the death of his Empire three mind maps three mind maps there you have it we mine maps with three juicy quotations with loads of interesting things to say about Ozymandias however it's not over yet at the end of the paragraph or wherever in the paragraph you feel like it's relevant we also need to introduce context and Poets message it's really important you don't put context as like a separate paragraph by itself you've got to naturally embed it where it's relevant to what you're saying in your analysis or at the end of your paragraph if it's relevant and context basically means explain what was going on during the time the poem was written and therefore what message was the public trying to give the reader so all of these poems something interesting was happening in society at the time that the poets felt really strongly about and so they were trying to give some messages to the reader so interesting context were Aussie mandius is Shelley the poet we refer to them by their surname because they're not our mate Shirley was a romantic poet with a capital R romantic does not mean he was a lover it means he was part of the Romantic Movement which was a response to the Industrial Revolution and that's when they were all these factories being built everywhere they were breaking down all of nature breaking down all of like the beauty of London to build factories and make more money and there were suddenly loads of pollution and some poets like Shelley they were mourning the loss of spirituality and religion and nature and emotions at a time where money seemed to be taking over everything so because Shelley was a romantic poet his message through this poem was that human power is temporary it's transient it's ephemeral ephemeral really like that word it's not going to last basically it's futile it's pointless nature will outlive human beings and is more powerful than them the poem is based on a real Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II who left a statue with an arrogant inscription behind he wanted to build memorials for himself which he imagined would last forever however he used slave labor to build them and the slaves suffered hardship under his control so Shelley was conveying an allegorical message in this poem to political leaders who abuse their power this idea is actually further reinforced by the form of the pub in this poem is written in the form of a sonnet it's 14 lines long and sonnets are traditionally about love or death so in this sense the poem could be seen to be about ozymandias's love for himself and love for his power and also the death of his power the poem also uses something called iambic pentameter which means the lines in the poem are ten syllables long I met a traveler from an antique land do you see 10 and it's meant to be red in like this Rhythm that sounds like a heartbeat or a ticking of a clock so in this case perhaps the use of iambic pentameter is emblematic of the insignificance of human power compared to the inevitable passing of time yes and there you have it a full analysis of an anthology poem Aussie bandius I hope you found it helpful I hope you learned something new if you found this video useful give me a like and don't forget to watch the rest of the videos in this series ephemeral is that how you pronounce it ephemeral