Hawk_Roosting_And_The_Eagel,_Egotism_And_Ecosystems

Hawk Roosting And The Eagel, Egotism And Ecosystems “Hawk Roosting” and “The Eagle” Egotism and Ecosystems The poems, “The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson and “Hawk Roosting” by Ted Hughes, have virtually the same basic image. Both poems describe the magnificence of birds and their need to stalk and kill prey. Yet, the poems have different themes and have dissimilar results. In this essay I will compare and contrast the poems voice, tone, message, and pattern. The poems have different voices. The poem “Hawk Roosting” is the hawk describing himself, “I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.” In describing himself and his actions, the hawk sets a tone of arrogance and supremacy. He is highly taken by his own creation and his abilities. This is unlike the poem “The Eagle” where someone else is describing the eagle and his actions. In the first line the speaker says “He clasps the crag with crooked hands”. This shows that the eagle is not talking about himself. Although the event taking place is both poems are similar (hunting), the tones are different. Whereas one poem demonstrates as obsessive opinion of one’s self, the other states the facts. In the “Hawk hawk, eagle, roosting, poems, poem, words, tone, both, himself, one, message, creature, birds, voice, two, similar, self, pattern, kill, hunting, however, having, first, egotism, ecosystem, different, describing, demonstrates, bird, actions, walls, stanza, same, riming, power