10 syllables per line
iambic pentameter
ababcdcdefefgg
closing couplet
ironic twist
3 quatrains and a couplet
an octave and a sestet
Due Friday, typed, with proper heading
When does ambition slide over into greed? That's the prompt I want you to spend a bit of time writing about tonight. Be ready to talk about it too.
"Ozymandias" (Percy Bysshe Shelley) is a word you will be more familiar with after class tomorrow. Heck, check it out now.
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
What does that have to do with what we were talking about today? What type of poem is that, anyway?
You'll also have an idea who Anton Chekov is.
Things to do. See you tomorrow.
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