A.P. Literature 10 August 2011 In “Roosting Hawk” and “Golden Retrievals,” the speakers portray the world through there own perspective. The persona in this poem is coming from two contrasting animals; the speakers are a hawk and a golden retriever. The authors use numerous literary devices such as diction, syntax, imagery, and themes to reveal the diverse views of these personified animals. In “Roosting Hawk,” the author uses diction to expose the arrogance of the hawk by making him appear to look almost God-like or divine.
Toward the end of Act IV, Scene I Petruchio makes a speech that mentions how his method of taming Katherine is similar to the method of taming a female falcon. From looking into the sport of falconry, the comparison is on point. In Act IV, Scene I, Petruchio says “My falcon now is sharp and passing empty and till she stoop she must not be full-gorg’d, for then she never looks upon her lure.” Petruchio says this because when he tames Katherine, he starves her and takes away her necessities. Petruchio deprived Kate of food, water, and sleep. Falcon trainers often do this to their birds until they begin to depend on their trainer.
Their leader was an old falcon, who was kept for show. The birds who ranked below the falcon, held her in highest regard because of her age. She applied her power over the other birds with no concern for their lives. In one instance, Wart is ordered to stand next to the cage of a crazy hawk who almost killed him. On the other hand, her age brought respect.
While the Raven is described as still making the narrator smile in the first line of the stanza, but later in the stanza is being described as “grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous”. In the following stanza, the dislike for the “ungainly fowl” grows, as it is considered a wretch by our narrator. By the sixteenth stanza, the narrator is actually screaming at the Raven and calling it a “thing of evil”. Through the next two
In Erich Maria Remarque’s book, All Quiet on the Western Front, nature appears as a means of projecting the mood of the book. There are many instances of nature that affect Paul and how he thinks of war and how both nature and war have changed him. In chapter one for example, the mood is placed by how nature is being described. The first chapter has descriptions about how the flowers and butterflies were so beautiful even if it was a war zone. "The grasses sway their tall spears; the white butterflies flutter around and float on the warm wind of the late summer."
In Martin and the Hand Grenade, and Harry Wood, this brutality is extrapolated in regard to man. In the other two poems, For the fire and A crow that came for the Chickens, the underlying theme lies in the cruelness of nature. This alone is evident through the titles of each poem. However, the common theme of both survival and death is established throughout all four of John Foulcher’s
Sylvia is smitten by her visitor who is on a mission to hunt down the rare white heron. Sylvia at first aims to impress the hunter by tracking down the white heron but, upon finding it, decides to protect the bird by not divulging its whereabouts to the hunter. Many have interpreted this story’s theme as a message of resisting industrialism. Sylvia is very attached to nature as shown by her preference to a rural lifestyle and her relationship with the farm animals. This is in direct contrast with the popular lifestyle of the people in the bustling city which Sylvia moved away from.
The cartoon “Scenic Drive” by R.Cobb also exceedingly explores distinctive experiences in nature. We first gain the idea of nature in “Nesting Time” at the very beginning of the poem with the quote “Charming utterly disarming little bird” L2.Stewart describes the bird in behavioural terms and with the lack of commas used in the quote emphasizes the impression the bird has already left on the man and his daughter. The opening lines of “The Moths” which is “Such a blaze of snow, such a smoke of sleet, such a fume of moths in the air” however makes use of a recurring language pattern by the repetition of the phrase “Such a” to effectively illustrate the ‘snow’ and ‘sleet’ and as well as ‘fume of moths’ as it helps to capture the visual characteristics and features of nature. We gain an image of the shades of colour of the moths ‘snow-white’ as they blurring move and flicker in the light, moving as one massive unit through the air. Stewart brilliantly demonstrates the moths movements as the mass of moths move like a ‘wind’, assuming the colour of ‘dusk’ and enveloping the foliage and blossoms.
The direction and theme of "a barred owl" and "the history teacher", are quite similar, causing them to follow similar lines of diction. The titles of both of these poems speak of wisdom and knowledge of what has been. In each poem, the world around them is not necessarily friendly, and the characters are forced to watch carefully. The history teacher uses the rhyme scheme (aa,bb,cc,dd,ee,ff), while the owl uses the same exact rhyme scheme. in many ways these poems are similar, and very beautiful.
Rip hears his name but cannot see “nothing but a crow winging its solitary flight across the mountain”. It becomes quite obvious at this point that the story is hitting some different themes. What