'Ozymandias' in 6.5 Minutes: Quick Revision

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[@radioactivecheesenowinnucl4746]

This clutched me out on my English Literature Paper 2 about two years ago. I got a question on war and conflict or something and Ozymandias was in the paper. As this was the one question on poetry I had mastered, I internally screamed like a pterodactyl when I saw this, I legit would've gotten a 6 at best on Literature overall otherwise.

[@fredhickin8092]

Thanks for the video! This shorter, more concise form makes it great for revision and quick recaps.

[@mrbruff]

That’s the plan!

[@galaxycatactingqueen723]

I would compare Ozymandias and Storm on the Island because both of them can be interpreted as romantic poems, Ozymandias loved himself but the people on the island loved each other as a community and the nature. In Ozymandias, the king loses his power over time in comparison, the same goes for Storm on the Island, although the community is prepared in the beginning- having power over the storm, they lose more and more as the poem progresses and the storm ends up having power over them. The difference is that the king never regained his power but, the community did because it was 'nothing' they were worrying about the whole time

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[@ciarafantom]

Thank you so much you have no idea how much I needed this for mocks. Any more coming soon?

[@mrbruff]

Yes a new poetry video will be uploaded every Saturday for at least the next six weeks.

[@YueshiYang]

EXACTLY WHAT I NEED RIGHT NOW THANK YOU!!

[@depersonalise]

I have no idea how I managed to turn this into a two hour study session, but I did and it helped so I recommend this to anyone doing gcse literature, or anyone who had to look at ozymandias for just about anything

[@Aka63ipp]

Too late now! Bruh

[@alfiepaffett1373]

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[@adahcharles9658]

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[@mrbruff]

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[@skerpy8145]

In the poems 'Ozymandias' and 'Exposure', nature is presented as a dominant force which overwhelms everything, including those who hold power. In the poem 'Ozymandias', shelley initially uses a sculptured face of the statue

[@malachygiles8789]

Anyone noticed that the rhyme scheme structure actually mimics how the statue is broken and has its middle missing? it goes ABAB aththe start- like the head- and EFEF at the end- like the legs- but ACDCED in the middle.

[@xodacan5072]

how would you mention that though. I don't think it would be an easy point to make as it wouldnt integrate well to your essay

[@malachygiles8789]

@@xodacan5072 you could say something like, "structurally, the rhyme scheme mimics the 'trunkless' statue by losing an order in the middle section. This reinforces in the most basic structure of the poem what we already learn about Oymandias' power being eradicated by time"etc etc etc or whatever

[@xodacan5072]

@@malachygiles8789 nice

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[@stellacaswell1464]

I would compare this to “checking out me history” as both are certainly a criticism of power, or the misuse of it, however they differentiate in the fact that “ozymadias” explores its impermanence and “checking out me history” of how that power and influence has retained through centuries, into our modern day.

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[@JackAndersMusic]

Well everyone, almost a month until GCSE'S. Who's here frantically beginning revision?

[@yke_sy]

how did you do on your gcses?

[@JackAndersMusic]

​@@yke_syoh I almost failed literature lmao

[@yke_sy]

@@JackAndersMusic i have to do my gcses in 1 year but i’m stressing i’m in almost all bottom sets 😓😓

[@simpwithlongdick6471]

@@yke_sy youre finished. year 10 and foundation for everything. dont even show up to the exams

[@E3Mp]

I have English Lit paper 2 tmr

[@thv.jk1]

Night before 🥲

[@DavyOfTheWavy]

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fr im doing this vid bc the other is too long and i cba

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[@bissenleo]

Thank you for these videos Mr Bruff! They're sooooooo good, and the animation is great!

[@abeth217]

thank you. that was very informative and engaging. I searched Ozymandias because i was curious as to whether there was a deeper significance to the name of the character in the Watchmen. Also, I'm not learned at all about poetry but Shelly's poem does remind me of Death the Leveller by James Shirley.

[@supremepatzer6055]

Hello sir, My teacher says to structure a comparative poetry essay like this: 1. Introduction 2. Poem A + B Themes + Context 3. Poem A + B Structure 4. Poem A + B Language 5. Conclusion Sir pls reply to me, do you agree with this structure, would it get me the marks? Thank you.

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[@Echo_Relix]

I’m only just starting to prepare for trial exams and use this to help I would consider comparing it to London as the poets both point out how people believe they can control and own nature when nature is greatly underestimated in many poems such as storm on the island and extract from the prelude

[@joshblake1]

this is quite extraordinary

[@mrbruff]

Thank you! I have one in this style for every poem.

[@kikigilou]

this has really helped me i am using it to revise for my gcse thank you x

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Can you upload more great expectations analysis videos, please? Especially for the characters

[@pumpkingamebox]

After all these years, Watchmen still cracks me up.

[@wkingofcurses]

This man made it easier to understand.

[@mrbruff]

Glad to hear it!

[@wkingofcurses]

@@mrbruff keep it up

[@Ethan.0512]

Helped me so much for my English exam

[@mrbruff]

Good!

[@gwill2100]

Actually I feel that Edgar Allen Poe's "Dream within a dream" compares very well. When the average reader comes across Ozymandias, they often interpret it as a general statement on the temporary state of all things, and that laying claim to anything with any sense of permanence is futile, represented by the poem as a statement of one's own power. In this way, Dream Within A Dream reflects on not only the temporary state of all things, but the illusions of emotion and attachment, as we build our lives on what we feel towards other things and other people, the foundation of why we do what we do having less tangibility than the very air we breathe.

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[@E.MADNESS]

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[@mrsav1376]

Can we get more analysis on Macbeth

[@mrbruff]

The ‘Macbeth’ series is over now- there are 60+ videos in the playlist and even more content in the revision guide.

[@botcatcher7664]

@@mrbruff Mr Bruff wouldnt you have compared this poem to London

[@catherinelindsay1062]

Very concise and helpful analysis! Could there be one of these videos for every anthology poem if you have the time?

[@mrbruff]

For Power and Conflict I’ve now completed 14/15 of these. They are all in the Power and Conflict poetry playlist.

[@catherinelindsay1062]

@@mrbruff Thanks so much. We didn't realised that!

[@theparrottube]

Love this video

[@PLK123]

I remember reading this in like year 8, that was 6 years ago?? Damnnn

[@katherinebloomer9254]

Hoping you are planning to do a the poems like this please. Really helpful. Thanks

[@mrbruff]

Yes all 15 Power and Conflict poems.

[@MistaWhite_Yo]

Can we compare this poem to "Remains"?

[@afia3482]

Please do one on Macbeth whole story supernatural element etc.

[@Whaler80]

my favorite poem

[@hassanmikky3624]

Hello sir , Is this a good structure for aqa writing Introduction Point Where in poem 1 More on poem 1 Context on poem 1 Where in poem 2 More in poem 2 Context in poem 2 Conclusion of paragraph

[@skerpy8145]

that is all for one paragraph?

[@xxhoney_bearxx]

I would compare it to "Checking out me history" as they are both very critical of those in power.

[@Maximum_Racism]

nice one mr bruff 👍🏻

[@gamecrab1015]

I might’ve compared it to storm of the island due to their different views on human power. Storm on the island says that human power is effective while ozymanDias however they noth acknowledge the power of nature

[@filly2299]

How did it go?

[@gamecrab1015]

@@filly2299 it didn’t come up in the exam so I didn’t do it. What came up was the Emigre and I compared it to Exposure. The question was something about effect of conflict on people.

[@nezstom847]

walter white is ozymandias

[@Stephanie-ct2hy]

I swear why does school make such an education hard to learn in school but in a video explaining it all in a quick and digestible way it is a bizaar time we love in nowadays.

[@joshhume_]

can you compare Ozymandias with storm on the island, since they both show the power of nature? ozymandias showing that time will always overthrow man, and storm on the island showing natures brutality and superiority over man.

[@mrbruff]

My concern here is about the limited evidence you could use when writing about 'Ozymandias'. It seems to me there is only one point to make in this line of argument, and that it would be hard to sustain a full answer. Here is further information on 'Ozymandias' as named poem: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apyaqpR6baeDbsU

[@joshhume_]

@@mrbruff Thank you, you make a good point. If Ozymandias comes up, i’ll probably use the same comparison that you use.

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Me...

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Hopefully no one who pays to take the class

[@ssodiumv2429]

this helped a lot.

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please can you do a video on how to structure the essay comparing power and conflict poems?

[@olliehunt5359]

great vid Mr Gruff keep it up !!!! :)))

[@bento-ccc]

cheers, helped with revision

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Thanks. It's extremely helpful.

[@n2bfw884]

I never would have caught any of that. Thank you.

[@princess_cx]

I really thought he would’ve compared this poem to London as is literally the same difference lol.

[@safa471]

Really? How do u find them similar. I'm just asking for new ideas as I'm studying them 🙂

[@princess_cx]

@@safa471 both London and kamikaze explore the themes of loss of power as a whole. And both the poets that wrote the poems are romantic poets... there are many similarities between the 2 but I don’t wanna write a whole ass essay comparing the 2 so I jus gave you 2 common ones :)

[@deepu55536]

when will English gcse syllabus change???? how many years it will change

[@mrbruff]

When a new specification is established, it requires two years of instruction before the first examination. Currently, there have been no discussions regarding the introduction of a new specification. Therefore, the soonest possible timeline for a change would be in time for the 2026 examinations. However, given the fact that two academic years were disrupted due to the pandemic, resulting in only five complete years of examinations under the existing specification, I would imagine it will be even later than that.

[@srijanumesh5355]

I , had never gone this depth into english before. For me , english was just a subject , a subject I'm good at and barely look at until the exams appear. I had never realised why people praised the poems of such people , what made it different that the simple ones I had written. But if you give me poems like these , how can I deny their power? Thanks , suggest any other such works if there are such

[@Spacecookie-]

I think, very much like the poem tries to convey about power, sonnet structures and, more generally, everything in life changes and passes. The original is established, but it will not remain thus. People look to the past to re-establish some ideal, when that passed long ago, as all things are transitory. History is not from one point arching forwards, but is a rolling scheme of invention, discovery, loss and change.

[@ethdavies6506]

Thankfully this isint needed anymore😭

[@joannafound]

We are still doing this urghhh

[@samanthaburnell2960]

Lol we are still doing poetry, but I love poetry so I'm happy. I prefer it over the 19th century text .

[@Fccoyle]

Lol I still need it. You only don’t need it if you do love but if u do power and conflict u still have to do it.

[@domzy5751]

No longer need this 😂😂😂

[@sashhhaa4874]

lucky I still do 😓

[@ameerahassan5174]

Can you do analysis on William Blake’s season poems there’s not much resources out there to help with it

[@RobertoVizcarra]

Both King George III and Napoleon on full splendor of power. Makes sense the urge to convey the sense of ultimate destiny of former power once we are gone.

[@seanb2039]

I would only *slightly* compare it to Browning and Porphyria's Lover, in the sense that there's a verbal testimony to an act, one that sought to arrest time (in Ozymandius, the sculpter, creating what presumably he felt might be an un-shatterable visage, and in Pophyria's Lover, the moment in which the poem's speaker psychopathically endeavours to preserve his partner's life and beauty, to hold fast time, to arrest it in someway). Both have very different purposes. Different scales of time. I don't really know why my brain made the association, but... it was there somewhere. lol.

[@mrbruff]

If you’re on the AQA exam board, Porphyria’s Lover is in a different cluster to Ozymandias.

[@seanb2039]

@@mrbruff Interesting. Without being involved in examining bodies, I don't really know what that might imply 🤣

[@mrbruff]

​@@seanb2039 If you're taking the AQA exam, you've made an error and suggested a comparison of poems from two different clusters. In the exam, you need to write about two poems from the same cluster.

[@seanb2039]

@@mrbruff oh okay. Doesn’t really matter though does it? You can compare any two poems you like 😂. Whether you’ve found a commonality or a difference, you can talk about their effects and themes relative to each other. I could compare the novels of Dickens and Dostoevsky quite easily, successfully, but they might not always be in an exam body’s cluster. Seems a strange thing to have to rely on 🤷‍♂️

[@mrbruff]

@@seanb2039 No it's fine, as long as you are not taking the AQA exam (which is what I make my videos for).

[@moggyjacatore94]

thanks for the 9 bro

[@muhammadmalik6794]

you can compare it to london by william blake

[@hekeani7609]

i would compare 'Ozymandias' to 'London' as they both have a distinct dislike for those in power as they analyse the cruelty and injustice occurring within society. They both criticise the church and the monarchy to forward the wrongs of today as they would['ve known it

[@NathanArdin]

This... pleases me

[@l77-z9f]

thank you very much you

[@MathsWithMelv]

...the greatest episode of Breaking Bad 😎🤣

[@mo_ops9426]

Ikr I’m trying so hard to figure out how this relates to the episode

[@21schizoidman43]

@@mo_ops9426 heisenberg empire

[@mo_ops9426]

@@21schizoidman43 yep this soon became my favorite poem of all time after reading it over and over.

[@finnyboi1437]

He even looks like heisenberg 😳

[@himboghost629]

He was was married to mary shelley, who ofc wrote Frankenstein

[@laurenhowell7880]

London is obviously the most perceptive poem to compare it to...

[@liamftm1125]

I am absolutely desperate for this poem to come up in the summer be it was used recently so probably wont.

[@hamzasherasmat6593]

I am surprised that you didn't pick London

[@aviationgeek9725]

who's here just getting started on revision or just me

[@essashakeel-s2h]

I would compare this poem with Storm On The Island by Heaney as the anti-government theme is common in the two poems.

[@alexloffman6950]

Yeah or power

[@Aka63ipp]

Inspire for cals

[@afia3482]

Please do one on highwayman Mr Bruff.

[@local_geezar123]

i would compare it to hawk roosting

[@binglar1]

you could compare it to storm on the island as it matches the power of nature destroying his kingdom like the nature bombarding the islanders

[@theparrottube]

Best vidio

[@technogamerz7526]

Sirrrrrrr please make videos on sonnet 55 by Bard of avon

[@mrbruff]

I’m afraid I don’t know this poem.

[@steviesings5305]

London

[@Jay..-_-..]

To his coy mistress seem to have a similar theme as this poem.

[@21schizoidman43]

Heisenberg

[@missylintoe1674]

Lol I got English lit exam next week, thank you

[@anti_1520]

Anyone else got eng exams next week

[@Maximus-kx3kg]

Tomorrow

[@ferdianeary822]

BRAVO

[@Niece0618]

can you do ozymandias and london?

[@t-7777]

Thankyou Mr walter white I mean Mr bruff🙏❤️

[@Hoggy.alight]

I thought this was breaking bad

[@guliazolanski9157]

5:16

[@manjitkang6615]

I believe London would be a good one...

[@riddhiii8544]

hawk roosting is a good comparison as both think of themselves as god

[@sporter527]

rip hank

[@Hydnmrrs]

Todays my mock

[@simpwithlongdick6471]

nobody asked