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Contemporary Imagery of the Hawk in Hopkins’s “The Windhover”

This essay aims to explore the imagery of the hawk in Hopkins’s “The Windhover,”-comparing it with the bird imagery in the poems of Newman and Kingsley, who are both well-known poets and religious figures of the Victorian era.. Firstly the imagery of birds described in Newman’s three poems “TO F. W. N.- A Birthday Offering”, “Solitude” and The Dream of Gerontius are analyzed with regard to the features they have in common with Hopkins’s. Secondly, Kingsley’s three poems, “The Knight’s Leap at Altenahr”, The Saint’s Tragedy and “The day of the Lord” have been elucidated in order to illuminate its similarities with Hopkins’s. As the result, Newman’s and Kingsley’s bird imagery in their religious poems seem to have had considerable effects on the imagery of the hawk in Hopkin’s “The Windhover.”