A metaphor directly equates two things which in literal terms are unrelated. There are multiple examples of metaphor in "Ozymandias," not limited to the ones listed below.
The first is found in the first line, "a traveller from an antique land." Normally, we reserve the word "antique" for old objects, specifically ones which can be collected or easily owned. We would not normally apply the term "antique" to a region or country, so this...
A metaphor directly equates two things which in literal terms are unrelated. There are multiple examples of metaphor in "Ozymandias," not limited to the ones listed below.
The first is found in the first line, "a traveller from an antique land." Normally, we reserve the word "antique" for old objects, specifically ones which can be collected or easily owned. We would not normally apply the term "antique" to a region or country, so this association may be intended to convey something of the speaker's poor, stereotypical, or one-dimensional understanding of the traveller's origin; perhaps he sees the land as "antique" in the same way that popular generalizations of "the Orient" or "the jungles of Africa" do not really represent those places in truth.
Another metaphor is the "sneer of cold command." Command is not literally cold, as in temperature, but cold in terms of human emotion and empathy. The "shattered visage" is described as cruel, dispassionate, and haughty.
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