Month: February 2016

Well- when beginning to answer a question- gives me time to think of an answer.

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In Ozymandias, fate is controlled by the three goddesses (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos)  we know this because in the poem It says “Tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things”, this tells us that Ozymandias is like one of the three goddesses (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos) who preside over the birth and life of humans.

In Julius Caesar, when Cassius turned Brutus against Caesar, we all knew that Caesar was going to die when this happened and this will happen because in act 2 scene 2, Caesar is warned by Calphurnia that he must not go out or he is going to get killed Caesar knew this was going to happen and he knew that he couldn’t cheat death. This makes Calphurnia seem like a goddess of fate because she knew when Caesar was going to die before he did.

The structure of a sonnet:

The Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines divided into three stanzas of four lines each and a final couplet.

The meaning of Volta:

In a sonnet the Volta is the turn of thought or argument. In petrarchan or Italian sonnets it occurs between the octave and the sestet and sometimes between the 8th and 9th or between the 12th and 13th lines of a Shakespearean sonnet or an English sonnet, before the final couplet.

what is the poem about?

the poem is about someone telling a story about a king called Ozymandias.

What sort of ruler was Ozymandias? Did he respect his people? How do you know?

Ozymandias is a mighty king but he didn’t love his people and we know this because it says in the poem ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’

How do you feel about Ozymandias by the end of the poem?

I feel that Ozymandias is a tyrant  king because he doesn’t care about his people, he rules them in fear and he abuses his power.

EXT: how has time been shown in this poem?