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

The Listeners by Walter de la M atomic number 18 and Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley two immediately convey a sense of mystery as they are set in the past. Ozymandias revisits the very distant past and The Listeners revisits the past in the lifetime of a single man.Shelley uses the technique of a story deep down a story to hold mystery, where de la Mare uses an account. However they both(prenominal) make use of a lone traveller who visits lonely places to dismiss a sense of fear, encouraging you to cypher about what might postulate happened in these places and that events could have been very sinister.Both poesys have the main focalise of an isolated structureThat dwelt in the lone house thenStood auditory sense in the reticent of the moonlight(The Listeners, draw and quarters 14 & 15, Walter de la Mare)Of that colossal wreck, absolute and bareThe lone and level sandpaper stretch far away.(Ozymandias, lines 13 & 14, Percy Bysshe Shelley)The poets inject both of these inanimate structures with a sense of humanity, which furthers the mysterious aureole surrounding them. Shelley uses a human description to do thisAnd wrinkled lip, and express of cold command,(Ozymandias, line 5, Percy Bysshe Shelley)Where de la Mare instead uses the spirits of the Listeners to harbor 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 state 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 kind mystery and suspense and make you feel as if you are ceremonial occasion 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 circumscribed and rather abrupt, which I think creates mystery because the reader has to us e their imagery to picture events clearly.The verse forms differ at this point because in The Listeners, de la Mares place setting is full of life, for example he describes trees, turf, grass and a horse. In line of reasoning to Ozymandias, where Shelley uses bleak descriptions of a setting, which indicates an extremely barren and empty expanse.The Listeners hints at the invariable quality of the spirits who dwell in the house. Whereas Ozymandias gives a clear depicted object 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 go away a gap 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 alliteration to describe distance, space and quiet. Shelley man ages 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 run all the way through, both poets have finished with mystery and quiet foreboding of what might be.I think that both poems are verbalise a ghost story. They are quite frightening and very mysterious. come in of the two my favourite is the listeners. I prefer this as I think it is a clear story, which made me feel on edge. Where I frame Ozymandias too vague and without a clear ending.