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Why Is The Downfall Of A Certain Tyrant Called Ozymandias?

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The poem makes simple bare statements about the downfall of a certain tyrant called Ozymandias. The speaker in the poem reports to us what a traveler "from an antique land" told him. The traveler conjoins the past with the present. The traveler knew who Ozymandias was and what happened to his power and empire. He now stands by the trunk less statue of the emperor Ozymandias, which lies in the vast desert landscape and tells the speaker the artistry of Ozymandias's statue and the inscription on its pedestal. The whole scene is dramatic and ironic to me . The poem is written almost like a sonnet with the rhyming words at the beginning and the end of it. The poem reveals its anti-tyrannical and anti -autocratic nature and also gives us the impression

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