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Literature analysis worksheet 2
The poems “Richard Cory,” “Sonnet XVIII,” “Ozymandias,” and “Famous” all deal with fame in
some way. Is fame fleeting? Is fame eternal? Is being rich and famous all it seems to be? What
does “famous” really mean?
1. How does Shakespeare say he will preserve the beauty (and fame) of the person he loves?
Why do you think the person he’s writing about is unnamed?
Shakespeare says that he will preserve the beauty (and fame) of the person he loves can be seen
in “Sonnet 18”, whereby it is meant that we see a challenge to the idea that love is finite.
Shakespeare shows us how some love is eternal and will live on forever in comparison to a
beautiful summer's day. Shakespeare has a way of keeping love alive in "Sonnet 18", and he uses
a variety of techniques to demonstrate how love is more brilliant and everlasting than a summer's
day. I believe that the person he is writing about is unnamed because he is trying to show that the
person the speaker is admiring is more beautiful, calm and understanding than a summer's day.
The summer is inferior to the person being admired, and the speaker's love for this person is
everlasting.
2. “Ozymandias” is based on a broken statue of Ramses II. What is Shelley saying about
fame?
Shelly begins “Ozymandias” by reiterating a story from a Voyager about a giant, demolished
statue that lay softened and disintegrated in the desert. The title of the poem educates the peruser
that the subject is the thirteenth century B.C. Egyptian King Ramses II, whom the Greeks called
"Ozymandias." The Voyager portrays the colossal work of the artist, who could catch the lord's
"passions" and give significant expression to the stone, a something else "inert thing." The
"mocking hand" in line 8 (Shelly) is that of the artist, who had the aesthetic capacity to "mock"
(that is, both copy and imitate) the interests of the ruler. The "heart" is as a matter of first
importance the king's, which "nourished" the artist's interests, and like this the sculptor's,
thoughtfully recovering the lord's interests in the stone.
What Shelly is saying about fame is that although the sculptor created this enormous stonework
that represented King Rames II, that was ultimately destroyed, still hold a symbolism of the
passion behind the sculptor’s vision and how he perceived King Rames II, better known as
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