"Hawk"
by Mary Oliver
This poem first appeared in Oliver's collection New and Selected Poems in 1992. Click here and scroll down for the text. It can also be found in The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, vol. 2, third edition (654-55).
Discussion questions:
What literally happens
in the course of the poem?
What is
important about the final stanza of the poem?
What important
similarities and differences do you find with Hughes's "Hawk
Roosting"?
Created by Stan Galloway 27 August 2005. Last updated 27 August 2005. Contact me at sgallowa@bridgewater.edu