Ozymandias - Reading & Meaning
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- Ozymandias - Reading & Meaning
This is the first video in a series providing analysis about Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley - a great poem from the English Literature Power and Conflict cluster. This particular video focuses on reading Ozymandias and discussing possible interpretations and analysis of the poem. We'll try to figure out what the possible message could be. After watching this series, you will have a thorough and detailed understanding of Ozymandias and its interpretations and will be completely ready to sit your English Literature GCSE!
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0:00 Introduction
0:35 Reading Ozymandias
1:30 What's The Story?
2:36 Possible Interpretations
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Check out the analysis videos below for more on Ozymandias:
Meaning: bit.ly/3LX8svd
Context: bit.ly/3KAfuG6
Structure & Form: bit.ly/3O8GOxw
Language Features: bit.ly/3JrQH5K
Comparison Poems & Practice GCSE Questions: bit.ly/37a0CQh
Slides:
www.tes.com/teaching-resource...
Music:
Yesteryears (DECISION) by Sascha Ende
Link: filmmusic.io/song/244-yestery...
License: creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
I heard a well known song writer say "once the song leaves my mouth and goes into your mind , it then becomes yours". I think the ambiguity of the poems true meaning your point out befits this perfect poem brilliantly, well done.
That’s a great quote. Thanks for sharing.
The most sensible effort regarding this poem I’ve yet seen on youtube.
Thank you!
Indeed
December 9, 2020 I am office add student and I am taking up Literature. Thank you sir for the explanation. These online classes do not teach us fairly.
You are most welcome.
The only guy yet who allows for a broader interpretation. I enjoyed your video and your educated but not all knowing insight.
Thank you for the feedback!
Ozymandias is quoted on the blistering track "Ugly" on The Stranglers first album Rattus Norvegicus.
Didn’t know that! Thanks for letting me know!
Thank you for the amazing explanation ❤️❤️❤️
You're welcome. Glad you found it useful.
Thank u for the explanation! The way u have presented the points and covered every single detail of the poem is brilliant!
You’re welcome! Glad you found it useful.
I recommend u to keep covering such poems which few students find it difficult to understand! Tysm!
Gazillion of thanks, wondrous explanation
Glad it was helpful!
Thank u for this ,my exam is tomorrow and this has helped me a lot and i loved the music in it 💗💗💗
You’re welcome. Hope the exam went well!
Thank you so much
No problem!
Thank you so much I was searching for this video
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Thank you sir , I have an exam tomorrow and it really helped.
Hope your exam went well.
Thankyou so much sir.... appreciated
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Thank you. It was amazing!
Glad it was helpful!
THANKS
No problem.
Thanks for the explanation
You're welcome. Hope it helped.
Wow this was released recently like it was made for me. LOL!!! Thank you.
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Thank you so much sir
That was much helpful
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I think it’s 1 2 3 6 7 the reason people don’t say the meaning is for us to figure it out kind of like reason 6 words last longer then life so we believe was the meaning is
Yes, i agree!
So useful ❤
Thanks!
All we had built crumbled under the weight of our own arrogance. The sands of time erase from the face of the Earth the evidence of our self-proclaimed glory. A slow death.
We enslaved one another in the names of the same gods and kings. How petty our squabbles seem now.
Madness. The sheer madness - and the stupidity! How all it took were the hands of a mad man to end everything. Gone in a scream of the light. Then like a wick in the night.
Nothing beside remains. The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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❤❤❤ nice
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😘🙏thank you so much sir , please can you make a video of Tess of d'urbervilles
Sorry, I only make videos about the texts that I teach.
thank you sir , i will have my exam tomorrow and it helped 😀😀
Hope the exam went well
Until destroyed the Universe
some people will be
for the helpfull to others
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Also you tube !
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Thank you,nice explanation
Thanks for watching!
does this poem contains a situational irony?
Yes, the fact that Ozymandias made a statue to show his power and glory, yet it is in ruins in the desert would be considered situational irony.
'Ozymandias' was the Greek name of 'Pharaoh Ramses II'. The colossal monument to the apparently self-styled 'King of Kings' has shattered, illustrating the precarious, transitory nature of his power. Ramses II = 1303 BC - 1213 BC (aged 90-91) {Reign: 1279-1213 BC}. Ramesses II is the most popular candidate, the most likely, for Pharaoh of The Holy Bible in the Book of Exodus, who dealt with Moses and GOD defeated. ~ The Image of "declaring you are the greatest" and then have nothing to show for it fits well and is the "moral lesson" of the poem. No one, not even a self-proclaimed "great king" is above GOD. ~ Thank You - Be Safe out there folks - Peace & Health to Us All.
Great context info. Thanks!
@@PateResources Thank You for the informative useful video. ~ Peace & Health to Us All.
I can't find the links for ppt
The full link is here: www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ozymandias-analysis-slides-12282583
@@PateResources gazillion of thanks dear
what does he mean by "ye mighty"? thank you.
"Ye" just means "you". So, "ye mighty" is essentially "you powerful people". Who the "you" is depends on your interpretation of the poem.
@@PateResources what i understand is that "ye mighty" who think they are powerful as I did once. Then he says look on my works. What is the work here? because what we see is just one picture of ruin as a work. there is no other work that we see.
I wonder if there is literature out there that explains every possible meaning of every word. thank you.
Yes, i think that’s one of the points that can be taken from the poem. There is only a ruin left, so it’s ironic that he’s so arrogant about it.
It adds to the pompous nature of Ozymandias. The title "King of kings" being a title we give to God yet he proclaims himself as such. So bluntly. "I am god and you simple kings will know my status and despair." But in the final part of the poem we are told nothing of his works remains. A barren wasteland. And a broken pitiful statue. Ozymandias was as mortal as the sculptors who erected the statues. Time stops for no one!
@@PateResources Are you sure about this? I thought ‘ye mighty’ meant ‘I am Mighty’.
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Thanks!
I think the traveller IS Ozymandias
Interesting theory!
I find some of the assumptions a bit far fetched....
That's the great thing about Literature - you can interpret in a million different ways! What are your thoughts about the poem?
Yeah, I think poetry is great cause for you it can be something but for someone else it's different
op bro
Thanks.
A one who cannot connect this to the Bible is LOST. This is the end of Daniel's dream for Nebuchadnezzar; the last line of this poem should have been: Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin?; WHO CAN READ THE WRITING ON THE WALL.
I like that idea!
im here from sad ist ozymandias animation
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imagine my relief when the speaker here did actually pronounce his t's when reading the poem! imagine my lack of relief when the stupidly misplaced music did not disappear when the reading had finished!
really, is this a meditation video? the music had me half asleep and made it impossible for me to focus on the lesson.
Thanks for the feedback! It’s no meditation video - just bad sound mixing on one of my earlier videos!
@@PateResources Thanks. (I didn't mean to sound so rude.)