In this poem it is concentrated on the features  of a hawk. Throughout the poem it’s descriptive on the prowess the Hawk has on the humans and its prey, generally talking about how much of a powerful bird it is. The manner the hawk thinks of himself is uniquely presented with him seen as very vain and arrogant. What the poem is really about is not about the hawk itself. It uses the idea of putting the hawk as the subject as a metaphor for the main idea of the poem. The poem really is relating to the behaviour of mankind when they’re involved in conflict with an enemy of some sort. When someone envies another person their mentality changes as they would be thinking that they’re superior than the enemy. It sparks a reaction where the person would talk about how amazing and great they are to intimidate their enemy.

Within the poem the language used to describe the hawk is very highly profiled t