Horace Smith has stronger similarities to The Watchmen due to its enmeshed structure, the relation between the characters and their diegesis, the treatment of time and space and the style. Shelley’s work does not connect well to the novel due to its relative clarity in structure. Narrowing down on the poem ‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Shelley (referenced in the novel) and its lesser known counterpart by Horace Smith, also named ‘Ozymandias’, I will study mutual aspects of both the poems and the novel and explore their relations.
This essay explores how these references and epigraphs affect the reader’s interpretation of the text, besides merely enriching their literary experience. Watchmen is a comic book series that contains a vast number of cultural references from a plethora of sources.
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