Are humans truly superior to the world that surrounds them? In the poem “Evening Hawk” Robert Penn Warren questions humanity's ultimate dominance of the world, and instead suggests that nature is the judge of humanity's errors. Through diction and imagery the author creates a dark apprehensive mood and shows the fragility of mankind before nature.
In the poem Robert Penn Warren uses specific diction in order to develop a dark mood of unease. By using words like “black”, “scythes”, and “unforgiving” the mood becomes more ominous. It also serves to make the reader wonder what could happen being that humanity is unforgiven. The narrator's dark language serves to create a sense of foreboding the future of humans and make a dark dangerous mood.
In the poem Robert Penn Warren uses specific diction in order to develop a dark mood of unease. By using words like “black”, “scythes”, and “unforgiving” the mood becomes more ominous. It also serves to make the reader wonder what could happen being that humanity is unforgiven. The narrator's dark language serves to create a sense of foreboding the future of humans and make a dark dangerous mood.