In the poems “Hawks Roosting” and “Golden Retrievals,” contrasting perspectives of the world are shown through the perspective of an animal. Poems such as these show how a powerful life works in comparison of a very simple life with less things in mind. Both of these poems represent their view of the world with figurative language, tone and diction. In the poem “Hawk Roosting” by Ted Hughes, the speaker talks in a dark way often making references to power and death. Stated in quatrain four “My manners of tearing of heads--The allotment of death.” These lines shows the hawk as a predator that must attack and eat which shows a darker side of the hawk. Also, in this poem the choice of words is much more rigid compared to “Golden Retrievals”. The hawk is seen as a much more majestic and powerful creature that the dog. Further in the poem the hawk speaks in a God like manner saying, “Now I hold Creation in my foot.” Creation is also being analyzed because the speaker wants us to know that the hawk in this poem in the most powerful. Also adding to this the hawk states “I kill where I please because it is all mine.” This makes you imagine the hawk looking down at us not us looking down at the hawk. Each stanza contains four line which presents the poem and subject is placed neatly. Even though this poem does not form a perfect rhyme scheme the four lines in a stanza makes the poem look very strict. In the poem Mark Doty’s “Golden Retrievals”, the speaker shows us a dog, as a playful, joyful creature with a very quick moving poem containing the game of fetch. The dog in the poem, is seen with a very short attention span as in real life. “Catch? I don’t think so,bunny, tumbling leaf, a squirrel who’s-- oh joy-- actually scared.” This statement does a good job showing us the carefree spirit of the animal.Though this is but one example it does a significant job of highlighting the carefree spirit of the