The first impression we get from the title is mystery. ´Ozymandias` does not mean anything to us, even knowing that it is a name, it would seem fairy strange to us. At the end of the first sentence the author mentioned ´antique land´, why does he not describe where exactly the place was? That gave us even more sensation of intrigue. The author perhaps was trying to tell us something through this name.

There were two vast and trunkless legs stand in the desert. But why do the legs stand in the middle of a desert? Why would someone build some giant legs in the middle of nothing? That person must be somehow unusual.

The poem starts with a rather complex description of a statue. The face of statue was ´half sunk´. Although the statue was vast, it seems meaningless to us. That person might be important once...