8) Consonance: Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds such as /s/ in Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown.
Ozymandias tone how to#
He seems like one of those guys you'd meet in a youth hostel who has all kinds of cool stories but no real place to call home other than the road he is a "traveler" after all, and he clearly knows how to give a really dramatic description – just note the bleak picture that is painted of the "lone and level sands" stretching "far away" (14) to see what we mean. Ozymandias’s description presents him as a mighty, great and fierce king but in reality, there is nothing but a broken, lifeless statue. He mocks the King of Kings and how what was once great is now in shambles. We don't know a whole lot about this traveler he could be a native of the "antique land" (1), a tourist who has visited it, or even a guy who just stepped out of a time machine. Tone: The poem Ozymandias has a rather ironic tone. The theme of the poem, Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelly, is if people challenge God, God will punish and humiliate those people to show other people what would happen if they challenge God, and this theme is portrayed with a serious tone. Through Shelley's tone, readers are informed of the kind of respect the leader the statue is modeled after deserved. One can imagine a movie based on this storyline: the speaker meets a strange guy who then narrates his experiences, which make up the rest of the film. Tone in Diction He illustrates Ozymandias is a way that is straightforward and slightly praising.
The speaker doesn't hang around very long before handing the microphone over to the traveler, whose voice occupies the remainder of the poem. First there is the speaker of the poem, you know the guy who meets the traveler from an "antique land." It's almost as if the speaker has just stopped for the night at a hotel, or stepped into an unfamiliar bar, and happens to bump into a well-traveled guy. There are several different voices in this poem that put some distance between us and Ozymandias.
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