The Listeners by Walter de la Mare and Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poems mystery

The Listeners by Walter de la mare and Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley both immediately convey a sensory faculty of brain-teaser as they are set in the aside. Ozymandias revisits the very distant past and The Listeners revisits the past in the lifetime of a single man.Shelley works the technique of a story within a story to create mystery, where de la mare uses an account. However they both make use of a lone traveller who visits lonely places to evoke a sense of fear, encouraging you to think just about what might arrive happened in these places and that events could have been very sinister.Both poems have the main focus of an isolated structureThat dwelt in the lone kinsfolk thenS similarlyd listening in the ease of the moonlight(The Listeners, lines 14 & axerophthol 15, Walter de la Mare)Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level littoral zone stretch farthest away.(Ozymandias, lines 13 & 14, Percy Bysshe Shelley)The poets inject both of these breathtaking structures with a sense of humankindity, which furthers the mysterious aura surrounding them. Shelley uses a human description to do thisAnd wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,(Ozymandias, line 5, Percy Bysshe Shelley)Where de la Mare instead uses the spirit of the Listeners to give the house a sense of humanity, as if the house itself is possessed and listening to the travellerAnd he felt in his heart their strangeness,Their stillness answering his cry,(The Listeners, lines 21 & 22, Walter de la Mare)Both poets cleverly use imagery to create pictures in our minds. De la Mare uses very detailed and lengthy descriptions, which build mystery and misgiving and make you purport as if you are watching the lone travelerKnocking on the moonlit door(The Listeners, line 2, Walter de la Mare)This makes you feel very apprehensive.Shelleys descriptions in Ozymandias are more limited and rather abrupt, which I think creates mystery because the reader has to use their im agination to picture events intelligibly.The poems dissent at this point because in The Listeners, de la Mares setting is full of life, for usage he describes trees, turf, grass and a horse. In contrast to Ozymandias, where Shelley uses bleak descriptions of a setting, which indicates an extremely barren and empty orbit.The Listeners hints at the containuring quality of the spirits who dwell in the house. Whereas Ozymandias gives a clear message of the ephemeral nature of the effects of power and pride.The end of each poem has both similarities and differences. Ozymandias has no clear end. There is nothing to sum it up. Shelley has left a bedcover to use our own imagination. But in The Listeners, de la Mare clearly describes the traveler retreating back to where he had come from. Creating a clear end to the story.The similarities arise at the end of each poem because both the poets use every(prenominal)iteration to describe distance, space and quiet. Shelley manages to create a large expanse of space, distance and emptinessThe lone and level sands stretch far away.(Ozymandias, line 14, Percy Bysshe Shelley)But de la Mare creates a feeling of stillness, quiet and distance withAnd how the silence surged softly backwards,When the plunging hoofs were gone.(The Listeners, lines 35 & 36, Walter de la Mare)By using this alliteration right at the end of the poems and the S sound all the way through, both poets have finished with mystery and quiet expectancy of what might be.I think that both poems are telling a ghost story. They are quite frightening and very mysterious. Out of the twain my favourite is the listeners. I prefer this as I think it is a clear story, which made me feel on edge. Where I found Ozymandias too vague and without a clear ending.