Suitable for teaching 11-14s. Hip-Hop star Akala and poet Hannah Lowe explore Shelley’s poem ‘Ozymandias’ and how it illustrates the transience of power.

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Hip-hop star Akala and poet Hannah Lowe explore Shelley’s poem ‘Ozymandias’ and how it illustrates the transience of power. The clip uses Anthony Gormley's artwork "Another Place" on Crosby Beach to highlight the themes of change and the strength of nature. They make links between the poem and the concerns of creating and controlling life depicted in the novel Frankenstein, written by Shelley's wife Mary. Young poets discuss the language and meaning of the poem.

This clip is from the BBC series Poetry Between the Lines: The Romantics. In this Bafta-award winning series, hip hop star Akala explores and analyses key works by Wordsworth, Byron, Blake, Shelley and Keats. He discusses language, form, social context and classic Romantic themes with a range of poets, rappers and performance artists, showing how the Romantic concerns with love, loss, nature and politics are still very much alive in the 21st Century.

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Teaching English Literature?

KS4, GCSE: Discuss the poem’s content, ideas, language and structure. What emotions are evoked? Pupils could look into context, compare alternative interpretations of the poem and explore Shelley’s world, and the influences behind his poem/poetry.

Romantic poetry is a key requirement on the new English Literature GCSE syllabus being taught from 2015 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is also on the pre-2015 AQA GCSE syllabus.

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