A hawk and a dog are viewed as polar opposites. A dog is playful and happy-go-lucky. While a hawk is daunting. In the two poems hawk roosting and golden retrievals, the authors belittling diction, imagery and syntax to illuminate and characterize the speakers with emotion. In Hawk Roosting, Tim Hughes uses belittling diction and imagery to show that the hawk is above everyone. His belittling diction demonstrates the hawks confidence. The phrase “the earth's face upwards for my inspection” implies that he is in charge and decides things. This suggests that no one is above him, he is at the top of the world and if the world doesn’t do as he pleases, he will kill them. Which comes to the authors forceful imagery. The image of the