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Hughes And Doty Poems: Poem Analysis
Teds Hughes and mark doty poems are written in animals point of view ,
Showing each unique animal character and their point of view about this world from their perspective. The poet uses literary devices in their poems using tones, personification , and visual imagery to evoke the reader's emotions and to make the poems more comprehensible.

In this two poems the poets made a unique quality of personifying the hawk and the dog because they cannot articulate their thoughts and emotions into words or create The poetry, though Hughes and Doty makes their speakers very believable. In hawk roosting the hawk speaks about himself . the hawk signifies his own self-assertion using ( I , me , my , mine ) , showing himself as a powerful king
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In golden retrievals Doty personifies the dog as person who does not stress himself about his past or tomorrow .Doty shows that animals cannot process the idea of tomorrow and only live in the moment. The dog ends up helping the owner remove himself from his depressed mind and to live in the moment.

The poems contains imagery sentences. In hawk roosting , the hawk says “ hooked head and hooked feat “, “ my feet are locked upon the rough bark “ he uses this imageries to show the reader the world from his eyes and his point of view. Also the hawk says “ i sit in the top of the wood “ , “ the earth's face upward for my inspection “
As it shows how supreme he is among the animals as no one can observe the world like he does from the sky and his eyes view.the dog is different comparing to the hawk, “ In the golden retrievals”, the poet shows images that the dog get distracted from anything that pass by him like “bunny , tumbling leaf , a squirrel , muck , pond , ditch , and residue “ as it its shows that he is a more carefree and he live moment by

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