Hurt Hawks Analysis

You might think that Jeffers was describing the same hawk if he hadn't added that essential S and broken the poem into two (unequal) parts. Each part focuses on a different occasion, but they're bo...

The speaker reveals deep feeling, a mixture of respect and concern for nature that never slips into that corny sentimentality you might come to expect from your garden-variety tree hugger. He is a...

You get the feeling that this poem is set roughly between the wilds and human civilization, where someone walking about town might discover an injured animal, but close enough to the wide open spac...

You know the way you can hear a hawk's cry echo down to you as it flies overhead? It's almost as if it's working by sonar, measuring distances with its cry. That's how this poem sounds. The long li...

Without the S on this title, you might think the two sections of the poem both relate to the same hurt hawk. That S, plus the specific times mentioned, helps a brother along. This title works like...

It takes one to know one. Hawks are certainly Jeffers' totem animals. They embody his ferocity, singularity, his vision, his coolness. Birds of prey, and hawks in particular, are everywhere in Jeff...

Although you can get the gist of this poem upon first read, you have to fly up about the trees to see it for all it is. The bird parts, yeah, they're right there. But when Jeffers brings up things...

How would you like to live right next door to your wife's ex? When Una (Mrs. Jeffers) met Robinson she was married to a man named Teddie Kuster. She divorced him to marry Jeffers, but Kuster was th...

No birds. No bees. Just hawks.