Who is the Speaker in the Poem Ozymandias of Egypt?
The primary speaker in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” (often studied as Ozymandias of Egypt) is an anonymous first-person narrator who meets a traveller from an antique land. That narrator reports the traveller’s description of a ruined statue in the desert. A third voice appears through the inscription attributed to Ozymandias himself. This layered structure creates … Read more