Question

In Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias," what effect is created by the poet's use of phrases like "antique land," "shattered visage," and "ye Mighty"?
A.
They instill the poem with a sense of futility and hopelessness.

B.
They instill the poem with a sense of age and long periods of time past.

C.
They instill the poem with a feeling of the vastness of the desert.

D.
They instill the poem with the speaker's great admiration for the king.

Answer 1

"They instill the poem with a sense of age and long periods of time past" is the best option from the list in terms of the effect created by the poet's use of these phrases.