What is your spirit animal? Is it the wise owl or the leader lion? It has been found that animals have archetypes; created personalities by humans based on attributed characteristics. This cannot ring any truer for Ted Hughes' poem "Hawk Roosting" and Mark Doty's poem "Golden Retrievals." Hughes explains the maturity and and sharpness of the hawk and Doty describes the immaturity and elementary intelligence of the dog through sentence structure and word choice.
To begin, while the two pieces of works are poetry, there is still a grammatical structure to observe. Each piece of poetry has a sentence structure similar to prose; the "Hawk Roosting" has a longer sentence structure than the "Golden Retrievals," which has a shorter sentence structure. This exemplifies that the hawk is being characterized as mature and collected while the dog is being …show more content…
Now, the dog is a different picture with words such as, "bunny, walk," and, "bark" (3&7&12). These are sharp and short words that anybody could easily recognized creating an elementary style. This contrasts the two to make the hawk appear even sharper and the dog even dumber. In fact, the word choice even manifests values with the animals. The hawk has strong values in reality; "no falsifying dreams" (2). This exhibits a strong hold on reality, which creates a pertinent negative that the hawk is not very idyllic, therefore solidifying the belief that he has a good wit about him. On the the other hand, the dog is more idyllic. While the dog never truly is dreaming, he does make haste with the things he cares about: bunnies and walks and listening to himself bark. As you can see, word choice is not something to rush over; these poets took the time with their choosing in order to characterize the hawkish hawk and the carefree
To begin, while the two pieces of works are poetry, there is still a grammatical structure to observe. Each piece of poetry has a sentence structure similar to prose; the "Hawk Roosting" has a longer sentence structure than the "Golden Retrievals," which has a shorter sentence structure. This exemplifies that the hawk is being characterized as mature and collected while the dog is being …show more content…
Now, the dog is a different picture with words such as, "bunny, walk," and, "bark" (3&7&12). These are sharp and short words that anybody could easily recognized creating an elementary style. This contrasts the two to make the hawk appear even sharper and the dog even dumber. In fact, the word choice even manifests values with the animals. The hawk has strong values in reality; "no falsifying dreams" (2). This exhibits a strong hold on reality, which creates a pertinent negative that the hawk is not very idyllic, therefore solidifying the belief that he has a good wit about him. On the the other hand, the dog is more idyllic. While the dog never truly is dreaming, he does make haste with the things he cares about: bunnies and walks and listening to himself bark. As you can see, word choice is not something to rush over; these poets took the time with their choosing in order to characterize the hawkish hawk and the carefree