1、Ozymandias,http:/ I met a traveller from an antique land, a Who said“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone, b Stand in the desert.Near them, on the sand, a Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, b And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, a Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
2、, c Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, d The hand that mocked them, and the heart, that fed; c And on the pedestal, these words appear: e My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, d Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! e Nothing beside remains. Round the decay f Of that colossal W
3、reck, boundless and bare e The lone and level sands stretch faraway.” f ABABACDCEDEFEF,Ozymandias: abab acdc ed efef Petrarchan: abba abba cdc dcd Shakespearean: abab cdcd efef gg,The rhyme scheme is unusual for a sonnet of this era; it does not fit a conventional Petrarchan pattern, but instead int
4、erlinks the octave (前八行) with the sestet (后六行), by gradually replacing old rhymes with new ones in the form,“Ozymandias” is a sonnet, a fourteen-line poem metered in iambic pentameter.,Ozymandias was the Greek name for Ramses II(法老) of Egypt, 13th century B.C.,The largest statute in Egypt had the in
5、scription “I am Ozymandias, king of kings; if anyone wishes to know what I am and where I lie, let him surpass me in some of my exploits.”,In this poem, there are there speakers, who are they?,I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone, Stand in the desert.
6、Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,From this stanza, we can find two speakers: “the author“, and “the traveler”.,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
7、 hand that mocked them, and the heart, that fed;,There is an intriguing(有趣的) balance and paradox between the mockery and the feeding.,The sculpture is a mockery of the kings overconfident passions for his works, it, paradoxically however, comes from the passions of the king. “that fed“ should be und
8、erstand as “. that fed these lifeless things“),By the sculpture the sculptor intends to mock the king the hand is a synecdoche here, referring the sculptor, and we can taste the mockery from “the heart“, referring to the conceitedly confident passion of the king, that which gives the sculptor the in
9、spiration to sculpt.,The harsh alliterative Cs of “cold command“ reinforces the picture,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,The irony-the king said “nothing beside (his works)
10、 remains“, but actually all this “works“ are gone now, what remains is the sculpture. (deeper meaning - only art is eternal.,And here we can find the third speaker-the King,Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch faraway.”,The alliteration and long vowels of “lone and level sands“ stretching “far away“, the open vowel sound ending the poem and disappearing into eternity.,Now lets welcome my partner May,
