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Text Complexity Rubric: Ozymandias • Why Brownlee Left • Man’s Short Life and Foolish Ambition

Quantitative Measures

Lexile: NP Text Length: 14 lines; 14 lines; 30 lines

Qualitative Measures

Knowledge Demands

1 2 3 4 5

The three poems are centered around a wide range of topics, some of which are abstract, theoretical,

or sophisticated.

Structure

1 2 3 4 5

“Ozymndias”: a sonnet with predictable meter (iambic pentameter) and rhyme scheme; “Why

Brownlee Left”: a sonnet without predictable rhyme or meter; “Man’s Short Life..”: a poem of rhyming

couplets, in iambic pentameter.

Language Conventionality and Clarity

1 2 3 4 5

“Ozymandias”: descriptive and metaphorical language; “Why Brownlee Left”: a mix of sentences and

phrases, descriptive language; “Man’s Short Life...”: poetic and abstract language with archaic syntax

and usage

Levels of Meaning/Purpose

1 2 3 4 5

All three poems have meanings that are difficult to identify and interpret, based around complex and

sophisticated themes.

SELECTION RESOURCES

First-Read Guide: Poetry

Close-Read Guide: Poetry

Poetry Collection 2: Text

Questions

Audio Summaries

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Selection Test

Summary

In Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias,” the speaker describes

a broken statue. On the pedestal is a boastful inscription, “I am

Ozymandias, king of kings/Look on my works, ye Mighty, and

despair.” Nothing else remains except the vast desert that surrounds

these fragments.

In Paul Muldoon’s “Why Brownlee Left,” the speaker describes the

mystery created by a man unexpectedly leaving his farm on a March

morning. Brownlee had grown famous by the afternoon, leaving

only his horses “gazing into the future.”

In “Man’s Short Life and Foolish Ambition” by Margaret Cavendish,

the speaker comments that men spend their lives building fortune but

emphasizes that they cannot control nature or death.

Insight

Reading these three poems will

help students reflect on the

relationship between human

beings and time. Each poem

speaks about the foolish desire

of human beings to control the

future, a desire that is doomed to

failure by death.

Ozymandias • Why Brownlee Left •

Man’s Short Life and Foolish Ambition

Connection to Essential Question

Reading these texts will help students answer the Essential Question—

”How do our attitudes toward the past and future shape our actions?”—by

revealing how human desires to transcend the present and control the

future inevitably end in failure as death and decay ultimately win.

Connection to Performance-Based Assessment

These poems help students respond to the question, “What is the

relationship of human beings to time?” Each text presents the grim

suggestion that time is more enduring than any single person.

Independent Learning 404B

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