Authors carefully select the literary devices they use in order to produce a specific effect in their readers' minds. While Benet’s “By the Waters of Babylon” and Shelley’s “Ozymandias” share setting elements, the writers create drastically different moods. In a well-developed essay compare the writers uses of imagery and diction in the development of the contrasting moods of their works.
Review your packet on mood and tone for “By the Waters of Babylon” and repeat the mood exercises for “Ozymandias” (see below).
Tips to success:
Do not simply recount the tragedies the characters encounter. Extensive plot summary will result in a REDO grade (no points), not a REWRITE (70 points). Look at diction, metaphor, imagery, etc., and how the author’s use of these techniques changes over the course of the story to help you explore the subject of the cost of wealth/money.
All essays must be submitted with the draft in the LEFT pocket (inside front cover) of a 2-pocket portfolio folder. Failure to meet these minimum requirements will result in the draft being returned to the student unevaluated and with no score recorded.
You will be sent to P.A. every day until you have submitted an a draft that earns at least a 70.
Drop-Dead Deadline: Tuesday, October 11, 2011."Ozymandias"
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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.”
