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Analysis hawk roosting
Hawk roosting analysis
Analysis hawk roosting
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Page 1 of 3 Animals can be used in literature to convey many things, including human views and experiences in the world. Ted Hughes’ poem “Hawk Roosting” and Mark Doty’s poem “Golden Retrievals” assist in showing these concepts. The first poem listed is clearly about a hawk, while the latter describes a dog. These two animals have very different characteristics and differing views of the world, which are exhibited by the several literary techniques used by the poets. Firstly, Ted Hughes characterizes the hawk in “Hawk Roosting” through using imagery, metaphor, and symbolism. The main instance of imagery occurs in the second stanza of the poem. “The convenience of the high trees! / The air’s buoyancy and the sun’s ray...” (Hughes 5-6). This shows the reader that the hawk enjoys being …show more content…
There is also one main metaphor within this poem. In the third stanza, the narrator states: “My feet are locked upon the rough bark. / It took the whole of Creation / To produce my foot, my each feather: / Now I hold Creation in my foot” (Hughes 9-12). To the reader, the hawk saying that it “holds Creation in his foot” sounds a lot like it has plenty of power over life, as if it were a god. The hawk sees itself as a supreme being with much control over everything else around it. In this poem, it can be interpreted by the audience that the hawk itself is a symbol of someone with absolutely too much power over a group of people. In the fourth stanza, the narrator says “I kill where I please because it is all mine. / There is no sophistry in my body: / My manners are tearing off heads -” (Hughes 14-16). The poem ends with the hawk saying “My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this” (Hughes 27-28). This shows that the hawk does not plan on ever changing its ways. In the next poem, “Golden Retrievals,” the dog is characterized through Mark Doty’s use of rhyme, onomatopoeia, and tone. Rhythm is present in only the first half of the poem in an
...veryone else. He wakes up every day ready to crow his symbol to bring on that day. In the poem he is ready to protect all the female chickens, from another cock that could be in there house. He is ready to battle to the death for what he thinks is his. In this poem he uses ridicule, when he is talking about the old man in a terminal ward, and he also uses connotations. Some example of connotations are when he uses words like; enraged, sullenly, savagery, unappeased and terminal.
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In the poems "Hawk Roosting" written by Ted Hughes and "Golden Retrievals" written by Mark Doty, both poets compose their poems as speakers "talking" (thinking) through animals' point of views. Although both poems are written through an animal's eyes, both take on the world from very different views through their complex characterization of an egotistical hawk to a lighthearted golden retriever. Hughes and Doty portray their animals in a way that makes it seem like they feel that they're superior to humans (although in different manners) through the usages of alienated alliteration, inventive imagery, straightforward syntax, melodramatic metaphor, and perplex personification.
With the works of Ted Hughes and Mark Doty in Hawk Roosting and Golden Retrievals, an idea of the views of life from an animal’s point of view are vividly painted with the assistance of literary techniques. Through each set of eyes, the world is viewed in a unique manner, from each human to each animal, the world is perceived in different lenses. In the poem Hawk Roosting by Hughes the Hawk deems to have an aggressive conceited view of life while in Doty’s “Golden Retrievals” the dog is playful and boast a “live for the moment” view of life. In order to convey the views, the authors, use syntax and diction, enjambment and caesura as well as imagery.
The poem “Traveling through the Dark” by William Stafford portrays the events of a speaker who must hurriedly dispose of a deceased deer. Before disposing of the body, the speaker notices the deer is pregnant and undergoes an ethical dilemma before ultimately getting rid of the carcass. In the poem “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin, numerous woodchucks are causing crop damage on the speaker’s farm. The speaker undergoes systematic killing of the woodchucks to rid the problem. Both of these poems describe the relationship between the speaker and animals. However, the two speakers view animals in a very contrasting manner. The speaker in “Traveling through the Dark” cares for the well-being of animals while the speaker in “Woodchucks”has no regard for animal life. Stafford and Humin reveal these opposing viewpoints through literary devices such as diction, tone, and imagery.
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Aaron: Sir, let’s begin with Hawk Roosting. What type of symbol is the hawk in this poem?
The interjections and short phrases he uses, like “Fetch? “Catch?” or “oh joy” seem abrupt and distracted, much as the dog is distracted and taken away by the world around it. The control and power that the hawk feels and seeks over its world is in stark contrast with the dog’s fascinations and distracted thinking.The tones of the two poems, developed through diction and imagery, vary greatly from one another and contribute to further contrast among the perspectives of a hawk and a dog. The tone of “Hawk Roosting” can be described as concise. Clear and straightforward choices of diction like “I kill,” “assert my right,” and “eyes closed” are unmistakable and show the hawk’s clarity. The images that Hughes shows from the perspective of the hawk include those of nature, comparatively small from the bird’s high point of view: “rough bark,” “revolve it all slowly,” “the sun is behind me.” The clear and controlled diction and the images from nature that Hughes employs contribute to a concise tone from the hawk’s point of view, which shows the control that the animal has over its own actions and the way that it feels that same power over the larger world. The tone of the passage “Golden Retrievals” is dissimilarly very
“A Poem for the Blue Heron,” a free verse poem written by Mary Oliver, focuses on and observes a blue heron making the decision to begin its southern migration. The speaker is awestricken by the pulchritude of the magnificent creature and admires the annual migration it must take to survive. The excerpt from “Cold Mountain”, a historical fiction novel by Charles Frazier, focuses on the discovery of a heron by a girl from across the river. The tone prevalent throughout this excerpt reveals the speaker is impressed by the prodigious stature and sophistication of the bird. The speaker feels the doughty bird deserves respect and sincere reverence. Although the authors develop these attitudes through their own writing styles, many similarities and differences in tone are evident upon analyzing the two literary works.
The Hawk In The Rain, the first poem in Ted Hughes’s first book of poetry published in 1957, describes the struggle of man on the earth and “a binary opposition between earth and air (Easthope, 189)”. Many of hughes’s poems including The Hawk in the Rain stand for “an intense experience of an external object (Easthope, 189)”. As the narrator drags himself through the mud, he is subject to harsh weather, heavy rain, and the earth itself, which is compared to a grave, grimly observing that the mud might swallow him whole as the hawk soars above. The earth is personified in the metaphor comparing it to a mouth and the narrator’s description of himself as a “morsel.” The hawk in flight is immune to the struggle, yet the narrator perceives that it is watching as in the alliteration, “effortlessly at height hangs his still eye.” The narrator clearly covets the hawk’s steady vantage point and its will, he wants the capability and power that the hawk posses. The hawk represents the ideal of self-control for the graceless, stumbling and besieged narrator (Bentley, 15). He observers the...
This reflects humanity, as we, historically, believe ourselves to be the pinnacle of creation, and so as above the rest of the animals. This also links to humanity's oppression of animals (as discussed earlier). Hughes shows the hawk to be conceited, and so is reflecting that same quality in humans. The hawk tells us that it took "The whole of Creation / To produce my foot", implying that he thinks he is what God made the world to revolve around. Hughes' use of religious ideas here also reflects the human idea of a Creator God, suggesting to readers that the hawk believes the world is so perfect due to divine intervention. However, the hawk then admits he now holds Creation in his "foot", which implies a power much greater than God, and a great amount of arrogance. The fact that is it his foot creates an air of inferiority of the rest of Creation, as the hawk holds it in the lowest part of him, and does so after it has created him. It also suggests an abuse of power, as the tables seem to have turned, and the hawk seems to have taken over everything, possibly even the place of