I was assigned Genre Reference Works. While looking for resources of this type, I hope to better understand the genre of "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Having a better understanding of the genre will help me interpret and analyze it more thoroughly. Listed below is a brief annotation of the resources I found.
• Poetry Foundation
This website offers thousands of definitions related to poetry. This can clarify questions regarding the genre of poetry. The biggest use from this in relation to genre is that it provides a glossary of the different poetic types. For this particular poem, I discovered that it is generally considered a sonnet. Because of this, I found historical context, and descriptions of the different types of sonnets. Through a better understanding of the historical context behind a genre, it allows deeper and different analytical paths when looking at a particular poem or an piece of literature.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
• The History of the English Sonnet (2014)
This source offers an in depth look at where the English sonnet comes from. As mentioned earlier, knowing the historical information about a genre can help one understand a poem better. However, knowing the origin of a genre can also help in the analysis process. Looking into the origins of sonnets, I feel that I can more comfortably understand different meanings behind this poem.
http://www.ijhssi.org/papers/v3(4)/Version-2/H0342064088.pdf
After looking into these different sources, I feel that I could even start identifying what kind of sonnet “Ozymandias” is and start discussing how that affects it as a poem. Or even, how it would be different if it was written in another poetic style.
• Poetry Foundation
This website offers thousands of definitions related to poetry. This can clarify questions regarding the genre of poetry. The biggest use from this in relation to genre is that it provides a glossary of the different poetic types. For this particular poem, I discovered that it is generally considered a sonnet. Because of this, I found historical context, and descriptions of the different types of sonnets. Through a better understanding of the historical context behind a genre, it allows deeper and different analytical paths when looking at a particular poem or an piece of literature.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
• The History of the English Sonnet (2014)
This source offers an in depth look at where the English sonnet comes from. As mentioned earlier, knowing the historical information about a genre can help one understand a poem better. However, knowing the origin of a genre can also help in the analysis process. Looking into the origins of sonnets, I feel that I can more comfortably understand different meanings behind this poem.
http://www.ijhssi.org/papers/v3(4)/Version-2/H0342064088.pdf
After looking into these different sources, I feel that I could even start identifying what kind of sonnet “Ozymandias” is and start discussing how that affects it as a poem. Or even, how it would be different if it was written in another poetic style.
I never thought that learning historical context about the dinner would help with this poem, but it did!
ReplyDeleteWhat's interesting about Ozymandius is that it departs so far from the conventional sonnet that it's almost unrecognizable as being any one of the sonnet formulas. Maybe I'll swim against the current a bit. I wonder if Shelley even meant for it to be a sonnet? Could it simply end up having a structure similar to a sonnet just because that's how many lines it took him to say what he wanted to say? I could be wrong, but it's food for thought.
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