Page 156 - 100 Best Loved Poems - Teaching Unit
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“Ozymandias”
by Percy Bysshe Shelley, page 35
Vocabulary
visage – countenance
sneer – scorn
1. The rhyme and metrical scheme is what poetic form?
2. What is the poem’s subject matter? What is the subject a metaphor of?
3. What remains of the statue? What may Shelley be saying by having such remains?
4. What type of king was Ozymandias?
5. How is irony functioning in this poem?
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