01-20-2015, 05:25 AM
Hi, I've read the second poem through a few times and the more I read it the more I am convinced that it is referencing other poems. I hope someone jumps in to correct me if they think that I'm totally wrong, but firstly this line "But darkling thrush and dancing daffodil" I'm presuming are references to the Thomas Hardy poem with Darkling Thrush and the Wordsworth poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud". So if this were the case you would have to see what you think they represent and I would say that Milo has helped you out a lot with his analysis of the first poem.
The other reference I think that I am getting is a Ted Hughes poem called "Hawk Roosting" which begins
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
And is in basic terms a "meditation in the woods" by a Hawk. The hawk in Ted Hughes poem has lots of human qualities and represents tyranny and power and human nature at its most evil. The word "rehearse" in the fourth line of Hughes' poem would seem to correspond to the second stanza in the Don Thackrey poem,
He listens to the whispering of leaves
Rehearsing striking colors in surrender,
Then notes a wheeling hawk that screams and grieves
To mock the season's bold deceits of splendor;
Especially as it is the hawk that interrupts the very moment. If this is the case then you need to bring all this together in the sense of knowing what is a representation of what and work from there.
Just my thoughts, but I'd be interested to see what others think.
Mark
The other reference I think that I am getting is a Ted Hughes poem called "Hawk Roosting" which begins
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
And is in basic terms a "meditation in the woods" by a Hawk. The hawk in Ted Hughes poem has lots of human qualities and represents tyranny and power and human nature at its most evil. The word "rehearse" in the fourth line of Hughes' poem would seem to correspond to the second stanza in the Don Thackrey poem,
He listens to the whispering of leaves
Rehearsing striking colors in surrender,
Then notes a wheeling hawk that screams and grieves
To mock the season's bold deceits of splendor;
Especially as it is the hawk that interrupts the very moment. If this is the case then you need to bring all this together in the sense of knowing what is a representation of what and work from there.
Just my thoughts, but I'd be interested to see what others think.
Mark
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