Read and listen to the following poem by P. B. Shelley, called Ozymandias. You can also find this poem on page ??? in your Poems and Extracts reader.
Now answer the following questions:
1. Which lines/phrases in the poem help you to define Ozymandias's character?
2. Read the following lines again and explain the irony of this:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
4. This poem is about the transience or vulnerabilty of political power, which makes it still relevant to the world we live in today.