Take your students from first reading to Grade 9 analysis with this comprehensive PowerPoint on Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias, designed specifically for the AQA Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology ...

If you struggle to memorize whole poems, as some of us do, it’s still efficacious to remember bits and pieces, to treasure up and produce at need. Into every life, at some time or other, will surely ...

America’s Petrol-Powered Hegemony At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with foreboding about the inevitable decline ...

This famous line is from a 1818 sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley entitled "Ozymandias," which talks about the remains of a huge statue in the desert depicting a once-proud king, Ramses II, who ruled ...

Ozymandias is a great libertarian political poem of ironic, rhetorical revenge upon the monstrous tyrant and his savage tyranny. The poem begins with the image of "trunkless legs", all strutting pomp ...