Roosting Hawk Diction

The flying hawk in the sky conveys the yearning he endures for freedom. They travel through rocky trails when a hawk lands on his shoulder. It soars through the sky and Colton stares at it in awe. For instance, he stares at the hawk while thinking, “He owned his world, he seemed to be telling me. Owned it! Soared above it and over it, came and went as he pleased,”(p.31). Colton wants to be free and when he ogles at the hawks freedom, he dreams of having the same experience. He wants to be able to soar above everyone and fly. He feels that freedom is like taking flight because when fleeing, he feels this rushing sensation,

Nevertheless, in the poem ‘Nesting time’, Stewart interprets a personal experience in first person of the appearance of a bird that lands upon his daughter and forgets the thought of the harsh world. Stewart’s descriptive language repeatedly explains the poem as if seen in his viewpoint, beginning with an interjection, ‘oh’ communicating of his incredulity of an ‘absurd’ bird. Symbolizing the bird with strong coloured imagery its ‘mossy green, sunlit’, described to be bright and joyful, with sweetness shown with the type of bird, ‘honey-eater’, Douglas Stewart takes the time to describe its admiration juxtaposed to the dangerous world surrounding it. While visualizing the birds actions, ‘pick-pick-pick’ of alliteration and repetition of its

For example, the narrator states that “Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood at the leaves, blood at the roots” (2). Trees are symbolic of life and are the foundation blocks of culture itself. While the description of the trees may be considered unsettling to the audience, the society the tree represents is not fazed by the revolting scenery, despite its morally wrong doings. Those born into such culture adapt all the morals and ideology of that culture, thus making it difficult to identify the faults within one’s own society. Consequently, ignorance unknowingly spawns within these societies and results in humanity being incapable to take action against it. In addition, Abel’s diction plays a severe role in conveying the thematic message. Within stanza one, the author starts out with the line “Southern trees bear strange fruit” (1). The first thing that comes to one’s mind about fruit is a pleasant, sweet feeling. Yet, as the reader continues, it is discovered that this ‘fruit’ is nothing but the product of murder. Throughout the poem, it is never addressed as murder, but simply as a fruit, which completely diminishes the extremity and seriousness of the circumstances. Metonymy, a form of

A new sentence leads into the second stanza to introduce a new idea; it shifts the attention of the poem from the imagery of the redwood growing against the house to the shortness of the

The diction in the excerpt is an essential component to the dramatization of the plot’s central incident. Jewett uses rich language to intensify the simple nature of the main character Sylvia’s journey up a “great pine-tree.” For example, in describing the tree, the narrator uses personification as he mentions the “huge tree asleep yet in the paling moonlight.” The use of personification harkens back to those universal moments in childhood in which everything alive had human feelings, and creates an emotional attachment between the reader and the tree. Jewett also uses other figurative language, like similes, to relate the grandeur of the tree to the audience. She writes, “It [the tree] was like a great main-mast to the voyaging earth…” In comparing the tree to the great mast of a ship, the author invokes feelings of awe at its size.

In his poem “The Great Scarf of Birds”, John Updike uses a flock of birds to show that man can be uplifted by observing nature. Updike’s conclusion is lead up to with the beauty of autumn and what a binding spell it has on the two men playing golf. In Updike’s conclusion and throughout the poem, he uses metaphors, similes, and diction to show how nature mesmerizes humans.

The tone of the poem changes as the poem progresses. The poem begins with energetic language like “full of heroic tales” and “by a mere swing to his shoulder”. The composer also uses hyperboles like “My father began as a god” and “lifted me to heaven”. The use of this positive language indicates to the responder that the composer is longing for those days – he is nostalgic. It also highlights the perspective of a typical child. The language used in the middle of the poem is highly critical of his father: “A foolish small old man”. This highlights the perspective of a typical teenager and signifies that they have generally conflicting views. The language used in the last section of the poem is more loving and emotional than the rest: “...revealing virtues such as honesty, generosity, integrity”. This draws attention to a mature adult’s perspective.

Both speakers ply nature as setting to express their emotion.the speaker in the poem “The Lonely Land”apply “cedar and jagged fir’s action” as setting to express the lonely environment of the poem and the negative attitude.

The writer makes use of diction to express his feelings towards the literary work and to set the dramatic tone of the poem. Throughout the poem, there is repetition of the word “I”, which shows the narrator’s individual feeling of change in the heart, as he experiences the sight of hundreds of birds fly across the October sky. As the speaker effortlessly recounts the story, it is revealed how deeply personal it is to him. Updike applies the words “flock” and “bird” repetitively to the poem, considering the whole poem is about the sight of seeing so many birds and the effect this has on a person. When the speaker first sees the flock of birds in lines 8-10, alliteration is applied to draw attention to what the narrator is witnessing. In line 29, Updike

The first quote I am talking about is going to be "Back into my chamber turning,all my soul within me burning." With this he is talking about heading back into his room feeling sad because he was hoping Lenore would be the one at the door and when it was not her he felt sad even though he knew she was dead. The next quote I am going to talk about is "Not the least obeisance made he..." With this quote he is saying that the bird is a unwanted guest and that the bird does not care that he is unwanted. With these quotes he is adding layers to the poem as well as explain more about how he feels inside as well as about the

The tone of this poem is established by the way the lines seem flat and void of emotion. The

In “Hawk Roosting” and “Golden Retrievals”, the poets characterize the speakers in their poems through the animal points of views. In the first poem shown, the animal is presented as confident superior and arrogant. The poem is written in first person perspective to describes the speaker's characteristics to the audience. The poem never says that the hawk is a hawk. The title describe the animal as a hawk. The poem is divided into three parts. The first two stanzas show the physical superiority of the hawk . The following next two stanzas illustrate the hawk’s power over nature and last two stanzas justify why he kills. Everything around the hawk works in favor of him. The high trees are convenient, the “ air’s buoyancy and the sun’s ray”(line 6) are advantages because the hawk owns everything around him. The hawk thinks it can do whatever it pleases,” I kill where I please because it is all mine.” (line 14) without having any of its consequences. The whole poem is a metaphor showing that the hawk is as powerful and mighty as the God that made him, “ now I hold creation in my foot” it is its own hero .” There is no sophistry in my body: my manners are tearing off heads”(line 15-16) that suggests that he’s saying there is no trickery in what it does and it doesn't need to justify himself because it’s his nature to do so. The hawk personifies humans and superiority by saying “hooked” and “feet”. Irregular and rhyme scheme are used in the poem. Rhyming is used with this phrase in the first stanza of the poem when “hooked feet”( line 3) rhymes with “kills and eat”( line 4) which symbolizes hawk’s two feet to capture it’s prey. Sentences in the poem are short which could symbolize the lives of the animals that were killed were short and ended quickly. Overall the hawk is displayed as the superior, above everyone, including its audience.The hawk has no intention to change,” Nothing has changed since i began”( line 22). The last line in the poem shows how he still has control over everyone and everything. He states that he is ‘going to keep things like this(line 24), he is going to keep his “reign” and maintain the conditions so that they remain in his hands.

Imagery was also used in the poem.  I found that the yellow in the first line represented that the future the writer was facing was bright and warm regardless of his choice.  The undergrowth was, as undergrowth in any forest, damp and dank smelling, but not necessarily unpleasant, just something that the writer would have to face.  The image of traveling through a forest also brings to mind thoughts of birds in flight, chirping and singing.  Squirrels dashing through trees, rustling leaves and dropping the occasional acorn or nut also create an image of sight and sound.  The sun reflecting through the trees, casting shadows and creating pockets of warm and cool air and the occasional breeze stirring through the trees are also brought to mind by this poem.  The end of the poem brings to me

At the bird’s appearance and apparent vocal articulation, he is at first impressed, then saddened. He compares this evening visitor as only another friend which will soon depart, just as “other friends have flown before” (58). But the raven again echoes quite aptly his one-word vocabulary, thus leading the man on to think more deeply about the possibilities that exist at this juncture. Somewhere deep inside him, he has realized that it doesn’t matter what question he poses, the bird will respond the same.

He wonders why the birds are just waiting in the sky as if they are waiting for a command, why they are restless, and he thinks it is strange that they are little birds and they are the type of the birds that normally keep to their own territory and don’t have a history of attacking people . When he looks out toward the coast, he sees the birds flocking in his direction and he believes that for some odd reason, they are going to come down to the