Timedwriting
Allison Rice and Maxine Tran Rice, Tran 1
Mrs. Sharp
AP English IV-5
15 January 2015
Timed Writing: Evening Hawk In Robert Warren’s poem Evening Hawk he explores the complexities of death and the impact its transcendence has upon human nature. Through extended metaphors, vivid imagery, and various allusions he communicates a somber and imminent mood. Therefore, aiding him to express his ideas on the unceasing nature of death.
Throughout the entire work, Warren uses an extended metaphor comparing death to an evening hawk. When describing the hawk’s flight he correlates it’s deliberate movements to the concise temperament of death. “His wing scythes down another day, his motion is that of the honed steel edge, we hear the crashless fall of stalks of Time”. The hawk’s natural actions serve to imitate the way death strikes suddenly with no seeming forethought. Also in comparing death to the hawk, Warren is suggesting the idea that death is natural and makes no deliberately malicious actions. In contrast, in the very last stanza Warren transitions the metaphor using a quaint simile, “ If there were no wind we might, we think hear the earth grind on its axis, or history drip in the darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar”. In doing this Warren is completely abandoning his early comparison of a majestic bird and instead compares it to a mundane annoyance tucked away. In doing this he is attempting to convey to the reader that although death is the grandest gesture one will experience the wind, or life around you, until it is startling
Rice, Tran 2 imminent it is pushed into the very crevices of your mind. Meaning that one does not give thought to death until it is there. Additionally, Warren employs the literary device of allusions in order to enhance his metaphor of death, contributing to the dark mood. In his second stanza by use of the word “scythe” , he alludes to the Grim Reaper. The comparison of the eagle’s wing to the stroke of death the Grim
Mrs. Sharp
AP English IV-5
15 January 2015
Timed Writing: Evening Hawk In Robert Warren’s poem Evening Hawk he explores the complexities of death and the impact its transcendence has upon human nature. Through extended metaphors, vivid imagery, and various allusions he communicates a somber and imminent mood. Therefore, aiding him to express his ideas on the unceasing nature of death.
Throughout the entire work, Warren uses an extended metaphor comparing death to an evening hawk. When describing the hawk’s flight he correlates it’s deliberate movements to the concise temperament of death. “His wing scythes down another day, his motion is that of the honed steel edge, we hear the crashless fall of stalks of Time”. The hawk’s natural actions serve to imitate the way death strikes suddenly with no seeming forethought. Also in comparing death to the hawk, Warren is suggesting the idea that death is natural and makes no deliberately malicious actions. In contrast, in the very last stanza Warren transitions the metaphor using a quaint simile, “ If there were no wind we might, we think hear the earth grind on its axis, or history drip in the darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar”. In doing this Warren is completely abandoning his early comparison of a majestic bird and instead compares it to a mundane annoyance tucked away. In doing this he is attempting to convey to the reader that although death is the grandest gesture one will experience the wind, or life around you, until it is startling
Rice, Tran 2 imminent it is pushed into the very crevices of your mind. Meaning that one does not give thought to death until it is there. Additionally, Warren employs the literary device of allusions in order to enhance his metaphor of death, contributing to the dark mood. In his second stanza by use of the word “scythe” , he alludes to the Grim Reaper. The comparison of the eagle’s wing to the stroke of death the Grim