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Mobab
Guest
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 shattered visage lies, whose frown
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 hand that mocked 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”.
(iv)Movement
The question here is: Does the poem have a regular rhythm? What effect does this have?
Rhythm in poetry is just like rhythm in music – a pattern of STRONG and weak beats. In rhythmic structure, we referred to a number of “feet”- a foot being simply a grouping of strong and weak beats.
If you want to scan the rhythm of a poem, say it out loud, deliberately accenting the rhythm, and mark the strong beats with a stroke - /- and the weaker beats with a curve –
Try this with the 1st two and a half lines of the poem. See what pattern you get.
The pattern throughout the poem is in fact quite regular.
DISCUSS
Remember your personal response can combine a number of observations.
•You might make your observations about MOVEMENT with this framework:
The rhythm of “Ozymandias” is regular. The pattern is ………………….. which emphasises the sense of …………… that the Pharaoh would have wanted to convey with his statue and the inscription.
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
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 hand that mocked 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”.
(iv)Movement
The question here is: Does the poem have a regular rhythm? What effect does this have?
Rhythm in poetry is just like rhythm in music – a pattern of STRONG and weak beats. In rhythmic structure, we referred to a number of “feet”- a foot being simply a grouping of strong and weak beats.
If you want to scan the rhythm of a poem, say it out loud, deliberately accenting the rhythm, and mark the strong beats with a stroke - /- and the weaker beats with a curve –
Try this with the 1st two and a half lines of the poem. See what pattern you get.
The pattern throughout the poem is in fact quite regular.
DISCUSS
Remember your personal response can combine a number of observations.
•You might make your observations about MOVEMENT with this framework:
The rhythm of “Ozymandias” is regular. The pattern is ………………….. which emphasises the sense of …………… that the Pharaoh would have wanted to convey with his statue and the inscription.