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OZYMANDIAS

The first vital point to note is that the poem is a sonnet in a traditional 14 line, 8-6, set-up with iambic pentameter.

Written in an "antique land" shows that the author was attempting to distance himself from the so-called king indicating the faded view of the past king Ozymandias.

Framing the sonnet as a story we are not seeing the statue with our own eyes, so to speak, we hear about it from someone who heard about it from someone who has seen it.

The speaker recalls having met a traveller "from an antique land," who told him a story about the ruins of a statue in the desert of his native country. Two vast legs of stone stand without a body, and near them a massive, crumbling stone head lies "half sunk" in the sand.

Shelley's description of the statue works to gradually build up the figure of the "king of kings":

First we see only the "shattered visage," then the face itself, with its "frown / and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command". Then we......

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Approximate Word Count: 710
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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