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Wind Hover

Content

• It’s a kestrel (a hawk)
• The bird is strong and graceful

Style

• Indulgent
• Romantic interjections (O! and ah!)
• Uses dashes, colons, exclamation marks, capitals, and stress marks to show you how to read it
  • Aural poem
• Lots of unusual words: wimpling, sillion
• Winding rhythm that reverses itself
• Word choice makes it ambiguous: “Buckle”
  • Should the kestrel prepare for battle proudly or buckle under pressure and lose that pride, forebearing to fight?
  • The whole poem revolves around that choice

Quotes

• “daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon”
• “My heart in hiding / Stirred for a bird”