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Shelley's Ozymandias

Read the poem by Shelley below and answer the questions which follow. Cite your evidence, using specific quotes if possible. In the blank after “Lines”, make sure to cite from which lines you drew your conclusion.

Standard: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. 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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818

1. What sort of structure is described in this poem?

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2. Is the structure in good shape?

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3. What happened to Ozymandias' “works”?

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4. What sort of person was Ozymandias?

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