Tone In Ozymandias By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Lyricist who wrote romantic, classic poem in her carrier. In her carrier shelly had always used different kind tone in her poem for example powerful, angry, emotional etc. What is poetry? What is tone? Poetry is an expression of feeling and ideas by using rhythm. Tone is an attitude or feeling of a character. Percy Bysshe Shelley had written one of the classical poem in her carrier called Ozymandias.

Starting with, in the poem Ozymandias Shelly had shift the tone from a powerful tone to ironic and mocking tone. For the first eight lines Shelley used the dominant tone by using words like “vast”, “Frown,” “command”, and “sneer”. This kind of words shows that Ozymandias was one of the great powerful

The sitting of the poem is in Egypt. The traveler told speaker a story about an old statue that was in middle of the desert. He describes that the statue is broken apart but at one era this statue was made on behalf of the great powerful ruler. In the poem it says that, “I met a traveler 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,” (Ozymandias, line 1-4) The traveler describes that pair of stone legs that are standing in the middle of the desert with no body. The head of that sculpture was buried in the sand. The ruler was a wicked guy, but he took care of his people. He reveals that the statue represents the “Ozymandias” the king of kings. He describes that that the Ozymandias is arrogant, who has a grand idea about his own powers so he called himself as a king of kings. As it says in the text that, “And on the pedestal these words appear:/"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:” (Ozymandias, line 9-10). Traveler describes the surrounding of the statue remains nothing besides the head, legs, and pedestal. Now, the statue is covered with sand and that describes that people in the today world are forgetting it. As it says in the text that, “Nothing beside remains: round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, / The lone and