Hawk Roosting and Ozymandias Comparison

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Hawk Roosting and Ozymandias Comparison

Similarities

  • Power and domination 'now I hold creation in my foot' and 'wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command'
  • Arrogant tone 'I kill where I please because it is all mine' and 'look on my works ye Mighty and despair'
  • Control 'I am going to keep things like this' and 'sneer of cold command'
  • Negative and arrogant words are used 'locked', 'tearing' and 'command', 'despair', 'lifeless'

Differences

  • O - about an Egyptian pharaoh
  • HR - about an eagle
  • HR - has more to do with nature and animals
  • HR - nothing has changed for the hawk, still in control and always wants to be 'I am going to keep things like this'
  • O - the pharaoh is no longer in control and his statue is now a wreck in the desert 'the lone and level sands stretch far away'
  • O - one stanza
  • HR - six stanzas
  • HR - published in the 20th century
  • O - published in the 19th century

Overall comparison

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