Hurt Hawks (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robinson Jeffers
- First Published: 1928
- Type of Work: Verse essay
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
The Poem
Because of its stark, powerful imagery and arguably misanthropic, even nihilistic, overtones, “Hurt Hawks” is probably Robinson Jeffers’s most renowned and frequently anthologized poem. It consists of two numbered parts, of seventeen and fifteen uneven lines, respectively. These two parts are essentially two separate, though closely related, poems. Read in dialectical fashion—as thesis and antithesis—they produce a meaning far greater than the sum.
In part 1 the poet presents, in an objective and distanced way, a red-tail hawk with a hopelessly...
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