Wonderful lesson spent on Ozymandias today. Some thoughts that Year 10 drew together around power that were incredibly insightful and well worth sharing:

- (contextualised by Foccault) an individual can only possess power if another entity is present to hold the position of...

those less powerful. In short, you cannot reign over an empty kingdom.

- Whilst power itself is exploited, those less powerful also manage to find ways to demonstrate power. E.g Remains, the looter might seem powerless as a result of being outnumbered, but the outnumbering..

alone suggests that he was powerful enough to be feared. He also holds power in an immortal state- the speaker within the poem is forever haunted by the looter's past existence.

- revolt can take many forms beyond the more obvious, violent ways which we may expect...

the sculptor holds power in his choices and decisions, irrespective of what they may have cost him (poor design would inevitably resulted in death), but the traveller possesses power in narrative: his perception over time has become truth. Truth that even..

supercedes Ozymandias. It seems that O cannot demand power through 'the hand that mocked' because to lose attention and respect results in the powerless holding power of response.

- Power is temporary, in all but nature, where power simply transfers as a construct...

The savage cat (SOTI) becomes the interrupted hare (BC) .. the sands (O) become the mountain (Prelude) and this endures beyond anything that man can conjure up.

What a glorious hour.
@Team_English1