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.
Hawk Roosting Critical Essay “The allotment of death.” Hawks may be considered noble creatures but Ted Hughes gives a rather different image of them in his poem ‘Hawk Roosting’. He provides the reader with the image of a corrupt and arrogant predator. A very different image to what we are perhaps used to. One cannot deny that the hawk is a bird of prey but Ted’s clever use of personification allows one to look at it from a different perspective: from the hawks own eyes. I will look into how this corrupt figure is conveyed, how the clever use of Imagery and his word choice completes the poem.
Home » GCSE » English » Poetry of Ted Hughes » Hawk Roosting Hawk Roosting Share | Email | Print Overview This is a great poem to use with 'Work and Play', as 'Hawk Roosting' describes a very different, much bloodier, side of nature. Hughes was fascinated by the 'animism' of ancient cultures, especially American Indians. Animism is the belief that spirits live inside all the parts of nature. Hughes poem seems to conjure the fierce spirit of a kind of Hawk God. In this poem, Hughes writes in the imagined voice of a hawk.
This seems quite daunting as the crows are approach threateningly. It also gives the painting a sense of emptiness and mysteriousness. The way in which Van Gogh has painted the pathways means that the viewer’s eye is drawn across the whole painting as it follows the routes of the different paths and scans across the chaotic sky. Van Gogh used oil paints on canvas to paint ‘Wheat fields with crows’. He has used thick dabs of paint, using quick impressionistic brushstrokes.
In contrast, Heaney’s poem is very personal and shows the effects that nature has on him, rather than to everyone. Clarke presents a certain ominous feeling in her poem. This is evident in the quote “small birds fell: song thrushes…smudged signatures on light”. The death of the birds symbolises is how Clarke exposes the extent of the damage caused by the Chernobyl disaster. In particular, the use of the word “small” by Clarke is very effectively used.
The most common found motif in Heart of Darkness is darkness. On page 13, Marlow says, "Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth, half coming out, half effaced with the dim light, in all the attitudes of pain, abandonment, and despair".This quote adds to the tone of being dim and bleak. Marlow is describing his surroundings as being dark and gloomy. However, he is not just describing what he is seeing but he is going in depth about what he is hearing as well. The diction used in this quote is very broad and descriptive.
In American romantic poems, as in all poems, tone plays a big part in the image that Bryant is trying to portray and the emotion he is trying to create in the reader. In the first stanza of the poem, the tone is sad, dark, and depressing. “The breathless darkness, and the narrow house, make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart” (12-13) shows that by using descriptive words like “breathless” and “narrow,” Bryant successfully creates a gloomy tone to the stanza. The second stanza continues the unpleasant tone, as described in lines 25-30, which say “Thine individual being, shalt thou go to mix forever with the elements, to be a brother to the insensible rock, and to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mold.” The description of being buried with rocks under a plowed farm and being victim to the oak’s invasive roots certainly brings an unpleasant feeling to the reader.
This dystopian society discourages competition because everyone is made to be equal in every which way. This stifles creativity and improvement. Vonnegut explores the dark side of the idea of equality by taking it to the extreme to create irony. The character of Harrison is seen as “a genius and an athlete” (Vonnegut 218). He is very handsome, strong, and intelligent.
The philosophy of FMA is connected to the theme of civilization because civilization is often argued to improve the human condition and FMA’s philosophy argues that this is impossible. Specifically, the article fails to mention how the Ouroboros and the Flamel’s Cross, the symbols of the antagonists and the protagonists respectively, are cues t o acknowledge criticism of their philosophies. The Homunculi’s Ouroboros represents how they view the human condition as a series of endlessly repeating identical cycles and thus its disruption lacks intrinsic negative value. However, by the end all of the Homunculi are dead and defeated. The hero’s Flamel’s cross on the other hand, represents how amoral natural forces can be purified to permanently improve human nature.
The only way he can be a valid member of society is to become a slave to science. This, once again, represents the overpowering of science and masculinity over the arts and femininity. Crake is Jimmy’s superior at work and within society. Crake’s knowledge of his power over Jimmy, once again, shows Jimmy’s femininity and