Golden Retrievals

In the two poems “Hawk Roosting” and “Golden Retrievals,” demonstrates the different points of views from each aniaml. They provide the same similarity, which is that both of the main characters are talking animals. They also differ from one another, the hawk is more prideful and confident, while the dog is more anxious. Both poems, “Hawk Roosting” and “Golden Retrievals” provides techniques, such as point of view, imagery and caesura to characterize the different personalities of the animals and their views of the world.
The use of point of view is a major focus on how both talking animals differ from each other. In the poem, “Hawk Roosting” the hawk sees the world as his own territory. He is the ruler of the world and everything else is his food, “Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly, I kill where I please because it is all mine.” When the hawk says, “It took the whole creation, to produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.” It shows how prideful he is, and how he uses his claws to take the life of other animals. In the poem, “Golden Retrievals” the dog is on the ground with his owner. He sees the world, as a place with ponds and ditches. Compared to the hawk, the …show more content…
In the poem “Hawk Roosting,” the author used constructive verbs to paint a picture in the reader’s mind, describing the scenery of the poem, “I sit in the top of the wood, with my eyes closed.” The author uses vivid descriptions to describe the hawks frightening sight of hunting for food. Creating a picture of a hawk flying down from the sky and killing a pray for food, “There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads.” In the poem, “Golden Retrievals”, the author uses words, such as fetch, sticks, tumbling leaf, and squirrel, leaving the reader to make an assumption that the setting of this poem is at a park. This creates an image of a dog and the owner taking a walk in the