Question

Think for a moment of the description of what the traveler saw in “Ozymandias.” Now provide your own brief description of other images, sights, sounds, and smells—things beyond “the decay / Of that colossal wreck”—which might have been part of that physical setting.

Answer 1

The location of the poem is the desert. We could describe seeing enormous amounts of sand, and several sand dunes that extend as far as the eye can see. Maybe we can see the pyramids on the horizon, and the ruins of other cultural objects, such as the columns of temples. We can feel the strong sun on our faces. We might hear the people that came with us speaking, perhaps in Arabic. We can also smell the camels and the food that we are carrying.

Answer 2

The traveler saw in "Ozymandias" in my own description:

I saw several lifeless, half-buried creatures in the sand they are standing in. They smell like rotten eggs, and I can't hear anything. The sound of silence deafens me. The place is hideous.