Robert Penn Warren's Evening Hawk

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Robert Penn Warren’s 2006 poem entitled “Evening Hawk” heavily uses imagery and description to convey the mood and meaning of the work. The language and literary elements such as imagery and diction implied in this piece thoroughly describes the scene. Robert Warren organizes his poem into three stanzas, which tell the events of the poem chronologically. Warren uses language to define imagery. He describes the scene of the world through the actions of the hawk. “From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through.” tell us that the hawk is soaring through the day. The next part of that stanza, “Geometries and orchids that the sunset builds..” goes into detail about the angles at which he travels and how the sunset is starting to look like