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Question #6  What is the theme (the central idea) of this poem? Can you state it in a single sentence? Elaborate on your idea.

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Question #6  What is the theme (the central idea) of this poem? Can you state it in a single sentence? Elaborate on your idea.

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In the poem The Spotted Hawk Swoops by Walt Whitman, the theme is introduced in the 4th stanza. It says “I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles”(Whitman 10-1). Here the author shows the theme: even though we die our legacy still lives on. This quote supports that theme because he is in a sense saying that even though he is dead and in the ground, any one who wishes to find him still can. His legacy still lives on and we can still see him in his poems and writings.

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Question #4: What figures of speech are used? How do they contribute to the tone and meaning of the poem?

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Question #4: What figures of speech are used? How do they contribute to the tone and meaning of the poem?

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Some figures of speech that are used are imagery, metaphors, personification, and similes. "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" (2.2 Whitman), "I effuse my flesh in eddies , and drift it in lacy gags" (4.2), The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab" (1.1-2 Whitman), "I depart as air,..." (4.1). They contribute to the tone and meaning by giving the readers a very good sense of the speaker's attitude goals, and what is going on in the poem.

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Question #1: What is the poem's tone? Which words reveal this tone? Is the poem ironic?

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Question #1: What is the poem's tone? Which words reveal this tone? Is the poem ironic?

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The poem's tone is positive and standing up. Some words that reveal this tone are, "I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable" (2.1 Whitman). This line shows that the speaker is wild as well, and will not sit down for any sort of disrespect towards his name. The speaker won't let anything stop themselves from living his life to the fullest.

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Question #5: Are there any symbols? What do they mean? Are they universal symbols or do they arise from the context of this poem?

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Question #5: Are there any symbols? What do they mean? Are they universal symbols or do they arise from the context of this poem?

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The symbol most prevalent in the poem The Spotted Hawk Swoops By is the Hawk. The hawk represents death. The poem starts “The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering”(Walt Whitman 1-2). Here death swoops by and starts to complain of his loitering on earth. Whitman uses this symbol to show how, even though we die, our ideas will live on. Death in the form of the spotted hawk gets angry about this because he doesn’t have full control of the narrator even after he dies because his work and memories live on.