William Blake's poem 'London' heavily focuses on the power that the Victorian Government had and control and opression it dealt to the poor Victorian society. This is useful because Blake lived during this time, the start of the industrial revolution saw many working class people living in poor conditions due to the opression by the government. 'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelly exposes the power of nature and the control it has if humans are not present. Blake describes the heavy suffering that met "every face". he describes the public's suffering as "Marks of weakness, marks of woe". It is important to us that it is on 'every' face and some as this shows that there was a collective sense of suffering throughout most of the people who lived in London in the early 1800s. These marks of weakness and woe must all be for the same reason because everyone in London is suffering and acts of the government are the reason. In Shelly's poem 'Ozymandias', the signs of suffering are completely different however the origins and reasons for the suffering could very well be the same. The suffering in Ozymandias is on the remains, a "Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And winkled lip." Here, Shelly describes the suffering as physical destruction done by the powerful nature that will eventually turn the statue into dust. However, the origins of the suffering could be from the "sneer of cold command ". The sneer is from the statue of Ozymandias. The use of alliteration in 'cold command' could be the terrible way that Ozymandias ruled, oppressive. Overall, the origins of suffering in Ozymandias and London are similar, from oppressive rule, however the suffering dealt is different, one being the suffering of people and the other being the ending of a kingdom and destruction of it's remains. Blake and Shelly also display the results of the suffering in both 'London' and 'Ozymandias'. In William Blake's 'London' the results of the suffering of the poor are the "youthful harlot's curse" and " Blasts the new-born infant's ear," The use of 'youthful harlot' referres to prostitution of women in poorer areas of London. Women in some cases had to resort to this as it was their only source of income. The 'blast' in the new-born babbies could refer to the age that some children had to start work. Families needed to make as much money as possible so they had to send their children to work really early to pay for necessities. Contrastingly, Shelly presents the effect of suffering as emptiness, Shelley describes the remains of the empire as a "colossal wreck, boundless and bare," This 'colossal wreck' must be from nature, as there is nobody left other than the remains. Over time nature has been slowly reclaiming what was theirs from before human settlements. Shelley displays the power of nature. Overall, the control of the government in 'London' causes generational suffering through poverty whereas nature holds the power to reclaim territory in Ozymandias. Finally, there is a lot of structure to Blake's poem 'London'. There is an ABAB rhyme scheme like 'street' and 'meet' or 'flow' and 'woe'. This could repressent the similar situation that everyone would live in their life of poverty in victorian London. The poem is also separated into 4 quatrains, giving a real order to the poem. This orderly fashion could represent the way in which government oppressed the poor during the Victorian era, by giving a strict order with limited freedom of expression. Contrastingly, in Shelly's poem 'Ozymandias' , there is no stanzas, it is a 14 line sonnet. At first, this could seem strange because sonnets are usually of love poems. However, the structure use of a sonnet could be due to the relationship between humans and nature. Nature wasn't created to oppress and control even though it has power. Nature's power is a natural thing that isn't done to cause pain or hardship. In conclusion, both poets, William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley present the theme of power and control in their poems 'London' and 'Ozymandias'. However the effect and aftermath of the actions from the thing with power is completely different. The government in 'London' causes physical harm to citizens whereas nature in 'Ozymandias' causes memorial suffering or loss in human achievements and artifacts.