Important lines to be discussed and memorized
1. a traveller from an antique land
2. a shattered visage lies,
3. Three emotions on the face: frown, wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
4. Sculptor well those passions read
5. yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things
6. The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed
7. Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
8. Nothing beside remains.
9. colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
10. The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Five important ideas:
1. Temporality of life
2. Time is the greatest healer
3. Arrogance Vs Humility
4. Contrast - Happy Prince
5. A fable/ Moral of the story
You can listen to the audio version of the poem by clicking on this link
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/play/75866
Main themes:
Theme # 1 - The Transcience (the state or fact of lasting only for a short time) of Power
1. The writings on the statue and the destroyed statue creates irony.
2. Great rulers and their kingdoms will fall into the sands of time
3. Even the king of kings is destroyed by the merciless passage of time
4. Not just the statue but the entire kingdom which existed around the statue
5. How powerless time and decay can make everyone
6. The cruelty of the ruler exists only in the shattered face of the ruler.
7. Shelley reminds us that history is full of the rises and falls of the empire.
8. No power is permanent.
9. Today maybe you are a king of a king, but tomorrow you may become a relic
Theme # 2 - The Power of Art:
1. There is one thing that has withstood the centuries – Art
2. Art as a tool to preserve human history and legacy
3. The statue shows the skill of the sculptor
4. The sculptor was able to copy the exact emotions of the King
5. This is the way the world knew that the King of a cruel king
6. The writing on the pedestal( inscription) also is an art which has survived the sands of time.
7. A possible link with the poem Digging
8. Art as a means to immortality.
9. Art inspires future generations
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