Percy Shelley: Poems

Why has Shelley choosen an antique land

Why has Shelley choosen an antique land

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I think you are referring to the poem Ozymandias. An antique land would mean a very old land. This represents the long history as well as the mythic properties of Ozymandias.

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert.