In Ozymandias, what is most likely the author’s reason for telling the story as it was told to him by “a traveller from an antique land”?
To avoid responsibility for whether the story is true or not.
To allow him freedom to supply dramatic detail without bringing up questions of how he saw these things, where exactly, et cetera.
To allow himself questionable distance from the bleak attitude toward all human accomplishment reflected in the poem.
To avoid legal action by anyone who might feel the poem was based on them.
To allow him freedom to supply dramatic detail without bringing up questions of how he saw these things, where exactly, et cetera.
- is most likely the author's reason for telling the story in Ozymandias as it was told to him by a "traveler from an antique land".
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