[etni] Re: Ozymandias
- From: LindaKM <lindakm09@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vardamorell@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:12:19 +0200
I took the analysis from the following site. There's a lot on Ozymandias..
http://www.shmoop.com/ozymandias
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:04 PM, LindaKM <lindakm09@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I did a quick "search" and this is what I found. I haven't read through it
> yet.. but sent it out anyway!
> Linda Kuras Mizrahi
>
> - *Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,*
>
> *The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed*
>
> - The poem now tells us more about the "passions" of the face depicted
> on the statue.
> - Weirdly, the "passions" still survive because they are "stamp'd on
> these lifeless things." The "lifeless things" are the fragments of the
> statue in the desert.
> - "Stamp'd" doesn't refer to an ink-stamp, but rather to the artistic
> process by which the sculptor inscribed the "frown" and "sneer" on his
> statue's face. The word could also make you think of the ruler's power. Had
> he wanted to, he could have stamped out any of his subjects who offended
> him.
> - "Mock'd" has two meanings in this passage. It means both "made fun
> of" and "copied," or "imitated." "Hand" is a stand-in for the sculptor. So
> the sculptor both belittled and copied this man's passions.
> - "The heart that fed" is a tricky phrase; it refers to the heart that
> "fed" or nourished the passions of the man that the statue represents. But
> if you think these lines are unclear, you're right. Even scholars have
> trouble figuring out what they mean.
> - The passions not only "survive"; they have also outlived both the
> sculptor ("the hand that mock'd") and the heart of the man depicted by the
> statue.
> - Note the contrast between life and death. The fragments of the
> statue are called "lifeless things," the sculptor is dead, and so is the
> statue's subject. The "passions" though, still "survive."
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Varda Morell
> <<http://www.shmoop.com/ozymandias/section-2-lines-9-14-summary.html>
> vardamorell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Can someone explain to me the meaning of the line "The hand that mocked
>> them and the heart that fed"?
>> Thank you!
>> Varda Morell
>>
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