The Test of Time
Suppose you’re a creator. Among architecture, sculpture, music, and literature, which do you think offers the most promise of an enduring monument? Explain your answer.
Architecture, sculputre, and literature are the most likely to endure I think. Architecture will be conseved through many years and studied as well as a sculputre, but with literature you can really explain the reasons and give much more detail of the time. I dont think that music endures because we can se the many changes in music taste through the years and it is not likely that many people will appreciate it.
Irony is the discrepancy between expectations and reality. Explain the fundamental irony in the sonnet.
The fundamental irony in the sonnet might be that the legs in the desert where a sculpture from a great king and that is what he wanted when someone passing by saw that the sculpture was from the king of ozymandias, but now after many years the sculpture was left as a ruin and nothing else.
Discuss what you think is the speaker’s message about pride -and whether it also applies to artists.
In some way he expresses that feeling pride is useless because it won’t leave you anything at all in the end. It can be applied to artists because they think that what they do is so awesome that it will never be forgotten and it is not that way at all.
Could this poem apply to any contemporary figures who wield political power? Explain.
Politics are not interesting for me in any way, but I guess I can say that in some way it applies. Politicians expect to rule over everyone and over a very long period of time, which is not true and the power they reach at some point won’t last for more than a few years.
