In a land far far away where darkness ruled, there existed only death and decay with no light. You must be wondering what is wrong with that sentence and why that sentence made you feel negative emotions. This is because the tone of that sentence is negative. Tone is the mood of the story; without tone people cannot understand the feelings that stories are trying to convey. Tone can be found in any kind of literature. The two poems “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley and “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson have similar and different tones to them. The similarity that both poems have is that when a reader is reading the poems it is giving of a feeling of arrogance. In “Ulysses” it is Ulysses who gives of feeling of being arrogant, and in “Ozymandias”
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Ulysses and Ozymandias have a similar tone in that both when talking are arrogant, but in Ozymandias's case he doesn’t actually speak since he is dead, but it’s the word he left behind engraved on the pedestal. Another similarity about the poems are that both of the main characters are kings, so it is not surprising to find that the two poems have an arrogant tone in common. Arrogance tends to stick out more in “Ozymandias” because of how the poem is written. In the poem “Ozymandias”, on the pedestal of the statute is written “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”(Shelly 4-5). This statement from Ozymandias himself is written word for word, which clearly is showing us that Ozymandias was …show more content…
In the stanza, there are an examples of irony from the description of Ozymandias's statue to his words on the pedestal and to the resting place of the “great” king which tells us that the tone of the poem is ironic. According to the speaker who is telling the story of Ozymandias who he heard from another person, Ozymandias's statement of himself on the pedestals says ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'(Shelley 10-11), Ozymandias is telling us to look at all he has done but there is nothing to look at, an example of irony. Although Ozymandias is the king of kings, he has a statue, but his head is on the ground. Ozymandias the Great King is by the desert and ruins of his empire, which goes to show us how his rule was. His rule was probably short because arrogance is a type of hubris which can cause the downfall of man. Due to him believing that he is the king of kings he never took anything seriously in life and believed himself to best, but there's always someone better than you and he probably pissed of that person causing him to get killed or his empire destroyed. It is also ironic that although he was the king of kings he wasn’t loved by his people. A prime example would be the person who built his statue, “Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, / And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,” (Shelley 4-5). When building the king’s statue, the Sculptor showed us the side
Ulysses and Ozymandias have a similar tone in that both when talking are arrogant, but in Ozymandias's case he doesn’t actually speak since he is dead, but it’s the word he left behind engraved on the pedestal. Another similarity about the poems are that both of the main characters are kings, so it is not surprising to find that the two poems have an arrogant tone in common. Arrogance tends to stick out more in “Ozymandias” because of how the poem is written. In the poem “Ozymandias”, on the pedestal of the statute is written “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”(Shelly 4-5). This statement from Ozymandias himself is written word for word, which clearly is showing us that Ozymandias was …show more content…
In the stanza, there are an examples of irony from the description of Ozymandias's statue to his words on the pedestal and to the resting place of the “great” king which tells us that the tone of the poem is ironic. According to the speaker who is telling the story of Ozymandias who he heard from another person, Ozymandias's statement of himself on the pedestals says ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'(Shelley 10-11), Ozymandias is telling us to look at all he has done but there is nothing to look at, an example of irony. Although Ozymandias is the king of kings, he has a statue, but his head is on the ground. Ozymandias the Great King is by the desert and ruins of his empire, which goes to show us how his rule was. His rule was probably short because arrogance is a type of hubris which can cause the downfall of man. Due to him believing that he is the king of kings he never took anything seriously in life and believed himself to best, but there's always someone better than you and he probably pissed of that person causing him to get killed or his empire destroyed. It is also ironic that although he was the king of kings he wasn’t loved by his people. A prime example would be the person who built his statue, “Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, / And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,” (Shelley 4-5). When building the king’s statue, the Sculptor showed us the side