Ozymandias Questions on First Person
Ozymandias
Traveller's Perspective and Role in "Ozymandias"
In Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias," the "traveller from an antique land" serves as a narrative device to convey the story of a fallen statue in a desolate desert. The traveler describes the...
Ozymandias
What effect does Shelley achieve by having each narrator speak in the first person?
By employing first-person narrators, Shelley achieves a sense of "endistancing," where stories are relayed from one person to another, highlighting the theme of reputation versus reality. This...