The poem's first transition occurs between lines 8 and 9, when it moves from the traveller describing the statue to Ozymandias himself, whose pompous hubris shines through the poem. The tone soon returns to the traveler's tone of the first eight lines in the final three lines. This shift in tone is highlighted by the use of different voices: that of Ozymandias (first person) vs. that of the traveller (third person). The latter begins with a question tag, which signals that we are now listening to someone else talk. Ozymandias' speech is printed in bold type while that of the traveller is not. This illustrates another difference between the two voices - that of authority/knowledgeability - for it was generally accepted at the time that poets had some degree of influence over their works, so the words of Ozymandias are important here. Another factor contributing to the shift in tone is the change in subject matter. Where before the poem spoke only of destruction, now it speaks also of hope. This change in focus comes as a surprise to the reader/listener, for whom the poem is mostly about destruction, but it does make sense in light of what came after 1820.