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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Focus questions for your notes:
Joyful reading!
1.The poet seems to make us want to believe that the bird is "unseen". Find textual evidence for this. Where is this evident?
2.Why is it important that the bird is not a physical being?
3.To what is the bird compared? What do these things have in common with the bird? Why is the bird the most lovely of these things?
4.Look at Line 90: Shelley says " Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." How is the song of the poet, different than the song of the skylark? Be specific and concrete.
5. How do you feel about Shelley's use of simile? Why does he use so much of it?
Ozymandias focus points:
Each group is responsible for a joyful reading of the text!
This will happen after you've read the poem and answered the questions, before we go over the answers in class.
- What are the vast and trunkless legs?
- What does "visage" mean?
- What is the importance of what we see on Ozymandias's visage?
- What does the poem say about great leaders and what happens to them?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
About Shelley
- His radical views on government and religion produced politically and critically driven poems
- Rejected the political views of his father, a member of the conservative party in Parliament
- His friendships with fellow poets Lord Byron and John Keats helped Shelley express his Romantic ideals more thoroughly through his poetry
- Shelley embraced the ideals of liberty and equality espoused by the French Revolution.
I met a traveller 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 visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
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 Ozymandias, 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 and level sands stretch far away.”