This document provides teaching materials for analyzing the poem "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It begins with learning objectives focused on using inference and discussion to analyze poems about power and control. It then presents the poem and discussion questions about how the theme is presented and what forms of power are discussed. It relates the phrase "Pride comes before a fall" to the poem. Students are asked to determine whether statements about the poem are true or false and provide evidence. For homework, students are asked to use the SMILE technique and annotate the poem in preparation for further analysis.

1. Thursday, 6th
February 2014
Poetry
L.O: To use inference and
discussion to begin analysing
a poem.

3. Power and control
 Remember
for each poem we analyse the
focus must continue to be on this theme.
 How
does the poet present this theme?
 What forms of power and control are being
discussed?

5. Pride comes before a fall
 Discuss
 What
this statement.
does it mean?
 How could it relate to the poem?

6. Ozymandias
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 shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock’d 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

7.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize
/english_literature/poetrycharactervoice/
ozymandiasact.shtml

8. Pride comes before a fall
 How
does it relate?

9. Statements - True or false
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The poem explores power and status.
The poet admires Ozymandias.
Ozymandias was once a proud, tyrannical ruler.
The poem suggests we have all the time in the world.
The poem is about legacies and what we leave behind after we
die.
The poet suggests that pride comes before a fall.
The poem is about time and nature and how man cannot
conquer either.
Shelley suggests that art and language will outlast humans and
other legacies of power.
The reader is left to imagine the sculptor as well as
Ozymandias’ character.
It is ironic that it is the sculptor’s legacy that will last and not
Ozymandias’ power.

10. Write down the ones you think
are true
 Find
quotations to back up the points.

11. Homework
 Use
SMILE to begin analysing the poem.
 Annotate
the poem for features.
 You
will be using these as a starting point
for analysis in next lesson.
 Monday
10th February 2014