11Shelly解说.ppt

Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley The spirit of revolution and the power of free thought were Percy Shelleys biggest passions in life. A radical thinker and pronounced atheist, Shelleys poetry explored the political themes of the day. Ozymandias The name Ozymandias (or Osymandias) is generally believed to refer to Ramesses the Great, Pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty (1279-1213 B.C.) of Ancient Egypt. Ozymandias 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, 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. 客自海外归，曾见沙漠王国 有石像半毁，唯余巨腿 蹲立沙砾间。像头旁落， 半遭沙埋，但人面依然可畏， 那冷笑，那发号施令的高傲， 足见雕匠看透了主人的心， 才把那石头刻得神情唯肖， 而刻像的手和像主的心 早成灰烬。像座上大字在目： ’吾乃万王之王是也， 盖世功业，敢叫天公折服！’ 此外无一物，但见废墟周围， 寂寞平沙空莽莽， 伸向荒凉的四方。 Ozymandias “Ozymandias” describes the ruins of an ancient statue Theme : all is vanity Irony : the inconsistency of what is said with the reality (appearance vs. reality) 3 kinds of irony: dramatic, verbal, situational Find examples in the poem of each. Setting Theme Setting?Egypt and the Sahara desert Theme? the arrogance and transience of power the permanence of real art and emotional truth the relationship between artist and subject Resource:/wiki/Ozymandias Structure Italian sonnet ?rhyme:interlinks the octave with the sestet, by gradually replacing old rhymes with new ones in the form ABABACDCEDEFEF. ?sound:metered in iambic pentameter ?the poem can be divided into two parts Octave(the first 8 lines)—describes the fragments of a sculpture the tra