Compare the Ways the Poet Explores Ideas of Power in Les Grands Seigneurs and One Other Poem

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Compare the ways the poet explores ideas of power in lgs and one other: The form of the poem seems quite conventional, laid out in four stanzas, and the poem begins by reflecting on conventionality. It is structured in two parts, however, with the first three stanzas describing romantic love before a dramatic turnaround in the final stanza showing how once married the man loses his power over the women and becomes less controlling and manipulative, the women becomes more ‘equal’ and gains more power over the man. The title Les Grands Seigneurs sounds grandiose, partly because it is French, a language associated with chivalry and courtly love in the medieval era. The term originally referred to aristocratic or noble men which means that men have a certain power and very much noticed for it. The third and fourth stanzas depict the narrator as she is viewed by men. In the third stanza the images confirm the motif of courtly love - she is a "queen" - and therefore remote and untouchable. But in the final stanza, when the narrator has been won by a man, this reduces her status to that of a "toy". Most of the terms used for her in the final stanza suggest smallness, as if she has been diminished by marriage. The power she had as a queen has gone. Ozymandias is a sonnet, although it doesn't have the same, simple rhyme scheme or punctuation that most sonnets have. Some lines are split by full stops and the rhyme is irregular at times. Shelley creates a memorable image of this "vast" and once great statue, now in ruins. He also places it in the middle of a huge desert with nothing else around it, which highlights its fall from grace. What was once so magnificent - a symbol of the king's great power - is now "sunk... shattered... lifeless". Ozymandias thought his works would last forever and would be above everyone else's. Not true. Nothing is left intact and his own
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