I am going to compare 'The Listeners' by Walter de la Mare, and 'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley, along with some pieces from other poems I have studied.
'Ozymandias' is about a mean and power hungry pharaoh who ruled Egypt centuries ago. Now all that remains is a statue in the middle of a desolate wasteland.
'The Listeners' is like a chapter from the middle of a book. In the poem a man, the Traveller, rides up to an old, seemingly abandoned house in the middle of a forest. He knocks on the door. The Listeners are there but no-one answers. The Traveller says something to the house, but you get the feeling that some unknown comprehension passed between the Traveller and the Listeners.
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