My Last Duchess Ozymandias

1 Character and voice Looking at the poems individually GradeStudio Ozymandias My Last Duchess GradeGradeStudioStudio Context by Percy Bysshe Shelley by Robert Browning Contexts Ozymandias was another name Ferrara a duchy in northern Italy. for Rameses, one of the Egyptian Read the poem in your AQA Anthology, then complete the Read the poem in your AQA activities below. Anthology, then complete the The Duke is probably based on pharaohs. Alfonso, whose wife Lucrezia died activities below. Activity 1 in 1561 at the age of 17. Initial responses Frà Pandolf/Claus of 1 Ozymandias was a great king. What tells you this in the poem? Innsbruck these two artists are 2 Find and write down the adjectives in lines 2 and 4. What picture probably ctional. do they create of the statue? How is this picture important to the GradeStudio message of the poem? 3 What do the ends of line 4 and line 5 suggest about the nature of C Sample answer the king? To achieve a C on this AO2 Activity 1 4 How do you think the king treated his subjects? Try to fi nd a detail Initial responses descriptor, you need to show to support your view. explanation of e ect(s) of 1 When you’ve read the whole poem, GradeStudio 5 ‘Look on my works, Ye Mighty, and despair!’ What did Ozymandias writers’ choices of language what is your fi rst impression of the Duke? mean when he had this written on his statue? What does it mean Sample answer C and/or structure and/or form Find some details from the poem to support what you think. now that the statue has been destroyed? To achieve a C on this AO1 intended/achieved. The following 2 This poem is a dramatic monologue. This means it is a poem Line 12 begins ‘Nothing beside remains.’ This is the shortest descriptor, you need to show extract from a sample answer 6 where the speaker reveals things about himself to the reader. A lot sentence in the poem. sustained response to elements would hit the grade C requirement. is revealed through the Duchess here. a Why do you think Shelley has used such a short sentence? of text. The following extract a What facts do we learn about the Duchess in the poem? b Why do you think he has placed it after the previous thought, from a sample answer would hit b What do other people think about the Duchess? Activity 1, question 7 ‘Look on my works, Ye Mighty, and despair!’? What effect does the grade C requirement. c Now look again at what the Duke thinks of her. What does he In the last line the it have? disapprove of in her words and actions? What do these things words ‘level’ and ‘stretch Find the adjectives in the last two lines. What do they emphasise? 7 reveal about her, and about him? Activity 2 far away’ emphasise how 3 Look at lines 33–43. What do you fi nd out about the Duke’s view of The Duke appears to complete the destruction Activity 2 Words/phrases to explore (AO1 and A02) himself in these lines? admire other people, like is, because it suggests 4 In line 46, what is the effect of the line break after the phrase ‘There Frà Pandolf, but really that absolutely nothing At the beginning of the poem the traveller is she stands’? Think about what comes next. he only admires himself. is breaking the surface ‘from an antique land’. Why do you think 5 The Duke stops looking at the portrait after ‘As if alive’ (line 47). He is the only person of the sand, where there the writer isn’t more exact about the What do you learn about the Duke after this point in the poem? How does it add to what you think of him? allowed to draw back the used to be a great place? What difference would it make to the poem if he was more exact, curtain over the picture, civilisation’. and made it about a specifi c place? Activity 2 and he chooses ‘never Words/phrases to explore (AO1) to stoop’ as that would Activity 3 Comparing with The last two words of the poem are ‘for me’. Why do you lessen his importance in other poems think the writer chose these as the last words? How do they his own eyes. He demands form a suitable end for the whole poem? You could write 1 Comparing ideas and themes that others admire a paragraph about the Duke starting from those words. Compare the central characters him too, and when in ‘Ozymandias’ and ‘My Last Activity 3 the Duchess dares to Duchess’. Comparing with other poems ‘approve’ of anybody else, 2 Comparing writers’ 1 Comparing ideas and themes the Duke thinks they are devices Compare the characters and situations of the duchess in ‘My Last ‘fools’ and disapproves Compare the ways that Duchess’ and the central character in ‘Les Grands Seigneurs’. of her so much it seems character is created in 2 Comparing writers’ devices that he had her killed. ‘Ozymandias’ and ‘My Compare the ways in which the voice of the speaker is created in Last Duchess’. ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘The River God’. 14 15 M01_LITC_SB_AQA_8525_U01.indd 14-15 17/12/09 11:42:21.

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